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Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings

Institutions are cutting back, but in corners of the city there is still new music to be found, like song cycles by Ted Hearne and…

Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Back to Having a Good Time

With the jazz combo Sexmob, this enduring avant-gardist revisited vintage and recent songs with a grooving spirit.

In Debut, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Gets the Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic’s renovated hall is a proving ground for guests to balance the orchestra. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla did so with assurance.

Tzadik’s Experimental Music Is Streaming. Start Here.

Listen to 15 streaming highlights from the vast catalog of Tzadik, the imprint founded by John Zorn.

Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern

“The Hunt,” set to premiere this month in New York, mines ancient lore about unicorns, but asks questions of today. Who has power, and who…

Capturing John Zorn at 70: One Concert Is Just a Start

The Miller Theater at Columbia University began a series of programs to celebrate this restless and eclectic musician’s milestone year.

New Recordings Revive James P. Johnson and Mary Lou Williams Rarities

A pair of new recordings bring holy grail artifacts by the composer-pianists James P. Johnson and Mary Lou Williams into the light.

What Spatial Audio Can and Cannot Do for Classical Music

Immersive audio formats, while newer for pop, have been used by composers for decades. But not all works call for spatial treatment.

At Time Spans Festival, New York Shows Off New Music

The festival is a bright spot on the August calendar, with casual yet tightly plotted concerts of modern and contemporary music.

Taking in Jennifer Walshe and Anthony Braxton at Darmstadt

In between the four operas of the “Ring,” a critic traveled to take in world premieres by Jennifer Walshe and Anthony Braxton.