Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director, will extend his contract and lead Wagner’s four-opera epic, in a production staged by Yuval Sharon.
Category: Music
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The World Is Still Catching Up to the Music of Hector Berlioz
The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams.
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Walter Arlen, Holocaust Refugee and Belated Composer, Is Dead at 103
After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music.
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How Ella Jenkins Revolutionized Children’s Music
Over seven decades, she brought a world of genres and ideas to songs for the young. On her centennial, what she would really like to do is perform again.
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Lincoln Center’s Rebranded Orchestra Settles Into Its Debut Season
Compared with previous seasons, recent concerts by the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center were refreshingly casual, but also more mixed.
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An 18th-Century Phenom Arrives at Lincoln Center
The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center will play Marianna Martines’s Symphony in C, a milestone for a composer whose music mostly fell silent after her death.
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How a ‘Dirty Gospel’ Minister Spends His Sundays
The Reverend Vince Anderson, a mainstay of the Brooklyn music scene, fills his day with worship in two languages, the Mets and a full hour of watering his 92 houseplants.
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Who’s Afraid of Being Black? Not Kamala, Beyoncé or Kendrick.
With her response to Donald Trump’s comments about her background, Kamala Harris showed that Blackness doesn’t need to be explained or defended — an idea underscored by her campaign theme song.
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At 97, This Conductor Is Modest and Extraordinary
When Herbert Blomstedt, the oldest major conductor active today, led the Vienna Philharmonic, age was only one factor in his remarkable artistry.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Next Project: A ‘Warriors’ Album With Eisa Davis
The recording, inspired by Walter Hill’s 1979 film about a gang making a perilous trek through New York City, will be available on Oct. 18.
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Wild Up’s Julius Eastman series, an excellent Bruckner symphony reading and the 100th album from BMOP/sound are among the highlights.
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A Dreamlike Collaboration From Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding
Milton Nascimento, a musical deity in Brazil, collaborates with the bassist, vocalist and producer Esperanza Spalding on an album that contemplates age’s effect on art.