He was a producer and club D.J. who helped rappers find their voices and fortunes, and who later became known as a raconteur of hip-hop history.
Category: Music
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Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years
An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here.
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Three New Books Make the Case for Music as Medicine
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
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Lil Durk Is Accused of Conspiring to Kill a Rival. What We Know About the Case.
The rapper Lil Durk was arrested at the airport in Miami this week after he had been booked on flights to three international destinations, federal prosecutors said.
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Phil Lesh’s Life in Pictures
Looking back at the career of the Grateful Dead bassist, starting with when the band was clean cut and called the Warlocks.
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Review: A Standard Rushes Back to the Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic has played Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony twice in two years. Rafael Payare led its latest outing.
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Philip Glass’s Musical Impression of an Artist Cut Down by AIDS
Glass’s Fourth String Quartet, written after the death of the artist Brian Buczak, will be performed at the New York City AIDS Memorial.
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Circe and Muse No Longer: A New Opera Reconsiders Alma Mahler
“Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.
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In the Art Biennale’s Shadow, Venice Celebrates Music, Too
It may not be as big or run as long as its visual arts sibling, but the Music Biennale includes a wealth of commissions and premieres.
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A Mental Tightrope: When Instrumental Musicians Have to Sing, Too
Artists who take up contemporary music sometimes have to sing and play at the same time. The results can be extraordinarily powerful.
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Paul Di’Anno, Early Iron Maiden Frontman, Dies at 66
The English singer played with the band in its early years. He later worked with other bands and pursued a solo career.
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Review: A Choir Stands Out in a Multimedia Performance
The Crossing is one of many elements in “Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness,” which links pieces by Gabriela Ortiz in a five-movement meditation.