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For New Music, There’s No Quartet Like JACK
Its stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles.
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Catherine Christer Hennix, Spiritual Drone Musician, Dies at 75
She fused her mathematical knowledge with minimalist sounds and global spiritual traditions, most notably in her 1976 composition “The Electric…
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World
For Russia’s Pop Star Exiles, a Moral Stand and a Creative Climb
Before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Monetochka was on her way to becoming a superstar in Russia. She had released two…
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Hall Is Suing Oates. Over What Is a Mystery.
The duo, whose songs regularly appeared on the top of the charts, is embroiled in some kind of legal dispute,…
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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…
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Business
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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André 3000’s 17-Minute Reverie, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Julia Holter, Dua Lipa, Danny Brown and others.