Category: Music

5 Breakout Artists at the Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival is synonymous with excellence and fame. But it’s also a place where artists on the cusp of stardom can shine.
This Is My Voice One Year on T

A transgender music critic explores the change in their singing voice after taking testosterone.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. Submits Bid for Paramount

The offer by Edgar Bronfman Jr. comes days before a crucial deadline in the scramble to acquire control of Paramount.
Harold Meltzer, Composer of Impossible-to-Pigeonhole Works, Dies at 58

His music, which was performed by many prominent ensembles, mixed melodic themes and rich textures with the sharp-edged angularity of modernism.
‘The Interview’: Jelly Roll Cannot Believe How His Life Turned Out

From jail and addiction to music stardom, the singer says he’s living a “modern American fairy tale.”
A Virtuoso Cellist’s Painstaking Path From Long Covid Back to the Stage

For over three years, long Covid has presented Joshua Roman with health challenges — and has indelibly shaped the music he makes.
An Undersung and Unruly Woodstock in Pictures, 30 Years On

A new photography show celebrates the 30th anniversary of Woodstock 1994, middle child to the festivals of 1969 and 1999.
One of Classical Music’s Great Builders Prepares for the Next Step

Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it.
Jack Russell, Great White Singer and Survivor of Nightclub Fire, Dies at 63

At a show in 2003 with his “Jack Russell’s Great White,” a pyrotechnics display ignited a fire that killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist.
A New Venue Beckons Jazz Musicians and Beyond to Upstate New York

The Mill, an arts center with art galleries and a performance space in an old flour mill, opened over the weekend. Its owners hope it sparks a “ripple effect.”
Esa-Pekka Salonen: A Conductor at the Top, and at a Crossroads

Salonen, who will soon be a free agent for the first time in decades, could do pretty much anything at this stage. What will it be?
Monet, Taylor Swift, ‘Moana’: What Got Readers Through Their Grief

After our series on how artists have been affected by loss, we asked readers what helped them when they experienced it. These are 15 of their answers.