» Music Review: Recognizing a Supporter of Difficult New Works
14/10/08 04:11 from NYT > Music
A performance of Schubert’s C major Quintet last week at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival’s 25th-anniversary concert was a reminder that the cellist Fred Sherry is no slouch in the standard canon.

» Music Review: Westchester Newlyweds Celebrate Alliance
14/10/08 04:10 from NYT > Music
The recent marriage of the violinist Itzhak Perlman and the Westchester Philharmonic, of which he is now artistic director, may seem incongruous, but it is opportune for each.

» Music Review: Webern’s Solitary Staccatos, Wafting Through the Frick
14/10/08 04:03 from NYT > Music
On Sunday the Hugo Wolf Quartet offered a striking performance of Webern’s adventurous and detailed miniatures.

» An Unwitting Assist From the Hockey Mom
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13 The Hillary voter has come home.

» The Reliable Source
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» Incandescent Images
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NEW YORK Look at the Museum of Modern Art's latest van Gogh show and you may spend most of it (including the two-hour wait one recent Sunday) feeling like it's a cynical exercise in ticket sales: Take "Starry Night," the MoMA painting that..

» Sound Bytes: Techno-Debate Is Just Sosolimited
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NEW YORK -- It's become a cliche to talk about the modern political debate as a carefully stage-managed production filled with talking points and scripted zingers. To get beyond the artifice, voters have for years been forced to rely on th..

» Nikka Costa's Far-Flung 'Pebble' Makes a Splash
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For somebody constructed of little more than tattooed skin and bones, Amy Winehouse sure casts a considerable shadow. Gotta be the bouffant!

» Got Recession? Come on Down!
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For months, advertisers seemed to ignore the R-word. Rhymes-with-shmecession? Heavens, no. The economy is just great, thanks. Now buy another iPhone. Charge it.

» Manhattan School of Music Faculty Moves to Organize
14/10/08 03:55 from NYT > Music
A group of Manhattan School teachers has begun an organization effort, which has run into strong opposition by the administration.

» Shaking Up ‘Woyzeck’ With Earthy Rock and Flying Trapeze
14/10/08 03:50 from NYT > Music
The title character of “Woyzeck,” a credulous Everyman driven to insanity by authority figures and jealousy, wouldn’t be out of place in one of Nick Cave’s songs.

» Metropolitan Opera: Scientific Inquiry
13/10/08 06:00 from PlaybillArts.com
A look at J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the creation of the atomic bomb. John Adams' Doctor Atomic , based around the Los Alamos testing of the first atomic bomb, makes its Met debut Oct. 13.

» U.S. Refuge for Singer Fleeing the Taliban
13/10/08 04:40 from NYT > Music
A hostile cultural climate forced Haroon Bacha, a Pashtun musician, to leave his homeland and come to New York.

» Music Review | Yundi Li: A Little Sturm und Drang Leavens the Usual Pianism
13/10/08 04:37 from NYT > Music
The Chinese pianist Yundi Li, 26, may not be as sensationally popular as Lang Lang, his countryman of the same age. But in recent years Mr. Li’s career has taken off impressively.

» Music Review | Prince: Rocking and Acknowledging Signs o’ the Times
13/10/08 04:31 from NYT > Music
A familiar if rare indulgence was available in the rooftop loft at the Hotel Gansevoort in the meatpacking district: a concert by Prince.

» Music Review | Judy Collins: Judy Collins as a Writer and a Muse
13/10/08 04:24 from NYT > Music
The music of Judy Collins has so many aspects that any survey of her nearly-50-year career as a singer-songwriter confronts you with what might seem like multiple personalities.

» Critics’ Choice: New CDs
12/10/08 21:19 from NYT > Music
New releases from Rise Against, Lucinda Williams and Rudresh Mahanthappa.

» Metropolitan Opera: Seduction Theory
12/10/08 04:00 from PlaybillArts.com
Erwin Schrott, a veteran Don Giovanni, tells the Met's Charles Sheek why opera's ultimate bad boy continues to enthrall artists and audiences.

» Music: New Hands Detonate ‘Doctor Atomic’
11/10/08 19:19 from NYT > Music
The latest of the John Adams’s operas on emblematic moments of 20th-century history makes its way to the Metropolitan Opera.

» Music Review | Muhal Richard Abrams and Amina Claudine Myers, the Wet Ink Ensemble: Conversations, Free-Flowing Yet Precise
11/10/08 04:27 from NYT > Music
Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Claudine Myers and the Wet Ink Ensemble performed at the Kitchen on Thursday to honor the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.