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At 80, the Saxophonist Billy Harper Is Still a Towering Force

He spent years playing with Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and Max Roach, earning praise for his sax’s piercing cry. He’s…

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John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits

LOS ANGELES — Just a few years after he’d left the provincial Welsh mining town where he was born, a…

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Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium

With a change of the guard imminent at the New York Philharmonic, Santtu-Matias Rouvali is the only guest conductor leading…

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Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working.

Composers are increasingly in demand for trailerization — reworking existing tracks by artists including Kate Bush, Nirvana and Kendrick Lamar…

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Revisiting a Composer’s Psychedelic Lewis Carroll Music

Lewis Carroll’s influence is all over contemporary culture. There’s the surreal image of going “through the looking glass”; the look…

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A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth

The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…

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Anita Pointer, Frequent Lead Singer of Famed Sister Act, Dies at 74

She was the lead vocalist on all three of the Pointer Sisters’ Top 40 hits in the group’s early years,…

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Ian Tyson, Revered Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 89

A rancher for most of his life, he began his music career as half of the duo Ian and Sylvia…

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These Young Musicians Made an Album. Now It’s Nominated for a Grammy.

The debut album of the New York Youth Symphony, featuring some players who were in middle school, is up against…

World

The Complex History Behind a Vienna Philharmonic Tradition

A global event today, the orchestra’s annual New Year’s Concert took shape during dark days in Austrian history.

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