Music
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Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old
“Right now you’re dancing on top of or ahead of the music,” Justin Peck told members of New York City Ballet during a recent rehearsal. As the pianist Craig Baldwin played the gently accumulating “Simple Gifts” section of Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian ...
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Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion
Dalia Stasevska returned to the orchestra’s podium with a world premiere and subtly linked works by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius.
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Newyork
How a Group of Brooklyn Beatboxers Became Ambassadors to the World
The trip will mark the first time that the government officially recognizes the genre in its American Music Abroad program.
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Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate
Zankel Hall has been temporarily reconfigured so that audiences can sit in the round, beginning with an enjoyable performance by the group yMusic.
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She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up.
Back in the 1960s, when female musicians were mostly confined to the roles of teacher, interpreter or muse, the Colombian composer Jacqueline Nova was charting new pathways in Latin America. Using tools like amplifiers, cables, pulleys, transformers ...
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Newyork
David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81
He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music.
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‘Vile,’ ‘Deplorable,’ ‘Full of Lies’: Aleksandar Hemon Is No Fan of Philip Roth
What books are on your night stand? Ray Monk’s “Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.” Oliver Sacks’s “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.” “The 1619 Project,” created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman ...
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Claire Chase Uses Her New Platform to Showcase a Hero
When the composer and performer Pauline Oliveros died in 2016, at 84, her reputation in music was secure. Her early electronic and tape-music pieces from the 1960s and ’70s are widely seen as key contributions to post-World War II American ...
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Newyork
Yukihiro Takahashi, Pioneer of Electronic Pop Music, Dies at 70
A drummer and singer, he was best known as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, one of Japan’s most successful bands and a major influence on hip-hop, techno and New Wave.
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A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter.
The conductors Michael Tilson Thomas and Daniel Barenboim have continued to perform as aging and illness loom.