Seven conductors share what it’s like to lead Anton Bruckner’s monumental symphonies, and why they resonate today.
Category: Music
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Part-Time Farmers, Part-Time Rock Stars: A Chinese Band’s Unlikely Rise
The band, Varihnaz, has gained fans by offering an alternative to China’s hyper-polished, fast-paced modern life, with songs about pesticides and poultry raising.
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Broadway Is Singing Louis Armstrong’s Songs. Here Are 6 Classics.
By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and tensions, “A Wonderful World” wants to shatter the image of an entertainer who was far more than just affable.
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The Music Industry Is Hoping Halloween Can Be the New Christmas
Eyeing the big business of holiday music, a few of pop’s major players are trying to expand the market for Halloween hits.
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DJ Clark Kent, Who Introduced Jay-Z to the Notorious B.I.G., Dies at 58
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.
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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.