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A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia
The Night Falls is a tourist trap in Florida, a beautiful grotto turned into a roadside attraction where three sisters sing in kitschy bird outfits. And then they drown and become actual birds, monstrous ones, whose seductive song, like that of the ...
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For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks
When Charles Munch started work as the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1949, he gave a speech. There wasn’t much he could say, in truth. His English was poor, though he had just sacrificed an umlaut in his surname in ...
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Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz
We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles and Terri Lyne Carrington share their favorites from this millennium.
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California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival
Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Rafael Payare will assemble their orchestras and more for the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music.
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‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall
The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is appearing at Carnegie with Dvorak’s “Poetic Tone Pictures,” a rarity being performed there for the first time.
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Ray Cordeiro, a Voice on Hong Kong’s Airwaves for 70 Years, Dies at 98
Late-night radio listeners in Hong Kong associated Mr. Cordeiro’s sonorous voice with easy-listening standards and early rock. He worked until he was 96.
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The Hottest Song at the Club? ‘The White Lotus’ Dance Remix
Variations of the spine-tingling intro music have played at rave parties, Australian music festivals and Sundance.
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Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Fever Ray, Chloë, Cécile McLorin Salvant and others.
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Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest
Known for dazzling virtuosity, Wang faces a new challenge in a three-and-a-half-hour Rachmaninoff marathon at Carnegie Hall.
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Hits from Renée Fleming’s career at the Metropolitan Opera, an unlikely Mozart and Beethoven recording and Florence Price are among the highlights.