Music
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World
‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ a Story of Second Chances, Gets One More
The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it’s an Off Broadway musical.
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News
Music Licensing Giant BMI Sells to Private Equity Firm
Broadcast Music Inc., one of the major performing rights organizations in the United States, collected $1.57 billion and distributed $1.47 billion for its 2022 fiscal year.
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Books
Her Music Fell Into Obscurity. Now It’s Back at the Philharmonic.
Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater” was well received in the 1950s. But it took until this week for the New York Philharmonic to program it.
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Newyork
David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86
David Del Tredici, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who began as an experimentalist but became best known for a midcareer shift toward a style that came to be called the New Romanticism, which yielded a series of rich-hued, tuneful pieces ...
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Books
Review: ‘Florencia’ Brings Spanish Back to the Met Opera
Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a Latin American composer.
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Books
André 3000’s 17-Minute Reverie, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Julia Holter, Dua Lipa, Danny Brown and others.
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Newyork
Cultural Diplomacy May Seem Pointless. That Won’t Stop Me.
While presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping were drawing the world’s attention for their talks in San Francisco this week, a different kind of summitry is happening in China. There, representatives from their two countries are speaking through violins ...
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World
In Spain, the Latin Grammys Recognize Powerful Women
Karol G, Shakira and Natalia Lafourcade took the top prizes at the awards’ first ceremony outside the United States.
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Books
Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes: A Diary of an Influential Life
Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances.
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Books
As Leaders Meet, Musicians from Philadelphia Orchestra Tour China
President Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, face a host of thorny geopolitical issues as they meet Wednesday in San Francisco: trade, Taiwan and the war between Israel and Hamas. But they have found some common ground in the cultural sphere. Both ...