Across the arts, these 10 performers took a leap of faith this year and stuck the landing in a big way.
Category: Music
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Abraham Quintanilla Jr., Music Producer and Father of Selena, Dies at 86
As a teenager, he hoped to make it big in the Tejano music world. He realized that dream through his daughter.
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41 Things That Stuck With Us in 2025
Aunt Gladys. Tyler, the Creator. That sex scene in “The Naked Gun.” These are the things Culture staffers couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.
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Best Classical Performances of 2025
Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it.
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My 5 Favorite Film Scores of 2025
Nine Inch Nails’ music for “Tron: Ares,” Nala Sinephro’s compositions for “The Smashing Machine” and more.
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Review: Two New Bach Pieces? The Real Thrill Was in the Chase.
Two workmanlike pieces by the teenage Bach had their New York premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
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Spotify Wrapped Isn’t the Only App Quantifying Our Social Lives
Spotify is not the only company quantifying our social lives. Partiful will tell you how many events you attended. Strava will tell you how active you were. Is it too much information?
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Christine Baranski and ‘A Christmas Carol’: A Natural Pairing
On a recent recording, and in concerts this month, Baranski reads Dickens’s holiday classic with the Skylark Vocal Ensemble.
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Bublé for a Day, but He Can’t Sing and There’s Little Resemblance
Dan Perlman, a comedian, looks and sounds nothing like Michael Bublé. And yet, for some reason, he was hired to impersonate the crooner at a birthday party.
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound
Under its music director, Manfred Honeck, the ensemble returned to Carnegie Hall for the first time in over a decade, flying in on a high.