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For Classical Music, Every Summer Is a Liberation
During a time of year in which anything can be a stage, the joy of music making has room to…
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A Farewell to Mostly Mozart, and to Its Music Director
Louis Langrée led a week of concerts to conclude his two-decade tenure with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.
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The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World
Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.
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This Is the Music America Needs
In an Era of Extreme Polarization, Can Music Bring Us Together? Listen to the music that inspired this piece and…
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Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision
New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s “wonderful world” in full,…
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Review: An American Opera Gets the Attention It Needs Abroad
Anthony Braxton’s “Trillium X,” part of a sweeping cycle of operas that began in the 1980s, finally premiered in Prague.
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‘Spamalot’ Revival to Open on Broadway This Fall
The new production, directed by Josh Rhodes, had a brief run at the Kennedy Center in Washington in May. Casting…
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Britpop’s Back. But What Happened to Cool Britannia?
Some of the biggest ’90s bands are playing major gigs across Britain again, and headlining festivals abroad. Yet Britpop’s swaggering…
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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Dueted. Their Stars Were Reborn.
The crooner and the pop star seemed like unlikely collaborators when they joined up in 2014. But the two masters…
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Saying Goodbye to the Dead. (Again.)
Jerry Garcia died in 1995. The band bid fans farewell in 2015. This weekend, Dead & Company will close out…