On her second solo record since leaving Alabama Shakes, “What Now,” Brittany Howard traces a path out of heartbreak. Today, she reads a Modern Love essay about that treacherous, hopeful journey back to love.
Category: Music
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9 Sunny Songs for Springing Ahead
To celebrate the return of daylight saving time, here’s a playlist full of songs about sunshine and daylight.
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Eric Carmen, Raspberries Frontman and ‘All by Myself’ Singer, Dies at 74
He sang on the power-pop pioneers’ 1972 breakout hit, “Go All The Way,” before launching a successful solo career as a soft rock crooner.
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A Musician Turned Pilot Shows It’s Never Too Late to Find a New Career
Patrick Milando, an accomplished French horn player, now splits his time between the orchestra pit and the cockpit, where he teaches budding pilots like he himself once was.
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How Ingrid Michaelson Made ‘The Notebook’ Into a Musical
Family history is “wrapped up in these songs,” said the singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who is making the leap to Broadway with an adaptation of the popular romance novel.
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Review: Igor Levit Wields Orchestral Power With Just a Piano
For his latest Carnegie Hall appearance, Levit played solo piano transcriptions of symphonic works by Mahler and Beethoven.
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Review: Two Electric Debuts at the New York Philharmonic
An exciting program featured the conductor Elim Chan and the cellist Sol Gabetta in a pairing of music by Martinu and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Total Solar Eclipse of 2024: 31 Things to Do
On April 8, the moon will blot out the sun along a roughly 4,200-mile-long, 115-mile-wide path across North America. Where will you watch it? Here are some ideas.
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Why Don’t More American Maestros Lead American Orchestras?
Leonard Bernstein blazed a trail for conductors from the United States nearly 70 years ago. But at top American orchestras these days, they’re scarce.
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Elim Chan Boxes, Conducts and Defies Stereotypes
Elim Chan, who is making her New York Philharmonic debut this week, blazed onto the scene as the first woman to win a prestigious conducting contest.
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Vienna Philharmonic and Franz Welser-Möst Return to Carnegie
Franz Welser-Möst, who stands at the top of this storied orchestra’s roster of conductors, led three meaty programs at Carnegie Hall over the weekend.