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A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start.
Naxos, which collects videos of productions throughout Europe, has begun to make its catalog available on Amazon Prime Video.

Anthony Braxton, Experimental Music Master, Gets His Due
Anthony Braxton’s music is difficult to program even among forward-thinking institutions. Leave it to the scrappy companies to get the work done.

Sono Fest! Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music
In its opening days, Ethan Iverson’s Sono Fest! in Brooklyn was already showing promise.

Review: Julia Wolfe’s ‘unEarth’ Is Crowded Out by Multimedia
Not for the first time this season at the New York Philharmonic, a premiere was muddled by obvious, sometimes intrusive video art.

High Schoolers Get In on Tyshawn Sorey’s Latest Music
In Philadelphia, Girard College students are joining the composer Tyshawn Sorey and Yarn/Wire for a multimedia adaptation of Ross Gay’s “Be Holding.”

Henry Threadgill’s Musical Spring Is Varied and Extreme. Like He Is.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has released a memoir, “Easily Slip Into Another World,” and a new album, “The Other One.”

Two Premieres Reflect the Ups and Downs of Claire Chase’s ‘Density 2036’
Claire Chase’s “Density 2036,” an undertaking to commission a new flute repertoire, reached its 10th installment with a multi-concert retrospective.

Long Play Rises to the Top of New York Classical Music Festivals
This weekend of concerts, organized by Bang on a Can, has quickly but assertively ascended to the rank of destination event.

Review: Jonathon Heyward Debuts With the Philharmonic
Jonathon Heyward, the incoming, barrier-breaking music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, leads the New York Philharmonic this week.

Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman’s Music Points to a New Canon
The 92nd Street Y, New York and Wild Up presented a three-concert festival of works by this pioneering Black queer composer. What next?