Neko Case performing Monday night at the Nokia Theater.
Neko Case’s show at the Nokia Theater on Monday featured songs of admonition, hurt and regret, delivered with a declarative gleam.
Teatro Grattacielo celebrated its 15th anniversary at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday with a concert performance of “Il Piccolo Marat,” Pietro Mascagni’s 14th opera.
After a collection of Michael Jackson’s memorabilia went on view for a public auction, the auctioneer and Mr. Jackson announced that they had agreed to cancel the sale and return the property to him.
Tiffany Clay, 18, is the top violinist at her high school in Ohio, but her dreams are bound by money worries.
The pianist Joel Fan took over Le Poisson Rouge on Monday to celebrate the release of “West of the Sun,” his new collection of music of the Americas.
Items belonging to Michael Jackson are part of an auction so large that it has been installed in a former department store in Beverly Hills.
The hall’s organ, a personal gift of Miss Tully herself, remains absent, dismantled and resting in limbolike storage in upstate New York.
The Los Angeles Opera’s new production of “Die Vögel” (“The Birds”) is a rare chance to hear Braunfels’s lighthearted, tenderly spiritual and little-known fable.
Extra Golden could be the house band for heterogeneity.
New York City Opera has been sending its orchestra, chorus and soloists around New York to perform concerts under the series title Looking Forward.
Phil Spector, the rock music impresario, was found guilty of second-degree murder in 2003 after a night of drinking.
Mr. Cain was a founding member of the soul group the Delfonics, whose hits included “La La Means I Love You.”
The venerable Joseph Patelson Music House in Manhattan, which has been like a living room for the classical music world, is closing.
New releases from Smokie Norful, Rascal Flatts and the Juan MacLean.
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, an astute Norwegian bassist, has experience with the fiery side of free improvisation: he’s among the most prolific figures on the European experimental scene.
When Kristjan Jarvi’s Absolute Ensemble performed, it felt like a homecoming in more ways than one.
Lloyd Barnes made a new studio for the Wackie’s label, which began in the Bronx, has an international following and is one of the earliest reggae labels in the country.
Mr. Oquendo adapted the carnival rhythm called Mozambique and reworked it for the timbales, introducing a hypnotic African beat to the dance halls of New York.
The contemporary-classical ensemble Red Light New Music set out to illustrate a connection between Morton Feldman and Beat Furrer.
The canon of Grateful Dead shows was built over 20-something years of the band’s existence, and is still developing.
A theater director has devoted his life to uncovering worthy operas from the once-thriving era of verismo.
Reviews of releases by Terry Adams, Bill Callahan, Trembling Bells and Marcus Roberts.
Paul Winter’s Connecticut studio barn serves as a workshop to weave music and the natural world.
A talented contender sets off the Web’s gaydar. Some wonder if a gay contestant can win. Others ask, why would it matter?
Two musicians have written and recorded a song they hope will revive a bill that would open private adoption records.
On Thursday night Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted his next-to-last program as the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
A performance of Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Christ” in Chicago featured a recording of Barack Obama and other meditations on Jesus’s cry from the cross.
Fly performed a calmly imposing show at Jazz Standard on Thursday night.
Ms. Overton joined the pop group in 1958 and melded her mellifluous low tones into their barbershop-quartet-like harmonies on some of their later hits.
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra has settled on the program for its concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening.
The civility and hospitality that Canada is known for were in short supply at a Thursday night concert in Toronto by Billy Bob Thornton and his band, the Boxmasters.
Over the last five years Fly has emerged as one of the most compellingly cohesive small groups in jazz, with a sparse but supple chemistry admired by other musicians.
Jadakiss performed at the Highline Ballroom on Wednesday night to celebrate the release of “Last Kiss,” his third solo album.
There are “Star Wars” elements in Achim Freyer’s fantastically strange and often confounding “Walküre” at the Los Angeles Opera.
The agreement is an effort to put more professionally produced content in front of YouTube’s audience, and earn more ad dollars.
The Australian pianist Barney McAll performed at the Jazz Standard on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Joel Smirnoff, the first violinist, made one of two final appearances with the Juilliard String Quartet before he departs to become president at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
David '‘Pop’' Winans Sr., a Grammy-nominated patriarch, appeared regularly on the Trinity Broadcasting Network’s '‘Praise the Lord’' program.
The BBC Concert Orchestra will performs a work by the drum and bass artist Goldie to celebrate the 150th anniversary of “On the Origin of Species.”
In honor of his 80th birthday on Monday, Carnegie Hall is presenting three events that showcase André Previn in his various musical guises.
The creators of Spring for Music, an independent annual festival of orchestras at Carnegie Hall, announce the seven orchestras selected for the first outing in May 2011.
Ludovic Morlot, a dynamic young French conductor, demonstrated his talents with a younger ensemble on Monday Avery Fisher Hall.
Vladimir Feltsman was at his most freewheeling on Monday at Carnegie Hall, and he grew less constrained by interpretive convention as the evening went on.
On Tuesday, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted his last Green Umbrella concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, for an audience of nearly 1,500 at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
Sonically upgraded reissues of the group’s original British albums, in both stereo and mono, will be released on Sept. 9.
The Juilliard School’s music-training program for poor minority schoolchildren has been slashed, disappointing dozens of children preparing to audition.
At its heart Wagner’s “Walküre” is a parable about power and its limitations.
During the first of three sold-out shows at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza on Monday, Katy Perry was at a sort of crossroads — a clearly ascendant pop star who seemed in search of a new direction.
“Lolita: An Imagined Opera,” presented in its American premiere on Friday as part of Montclair State University’s vibrant Peak Performances series, adopts the monster view.
On Sunday the pianist and composer Joseph Rubenstein and several colleagues visited Le Poisson Rouge for a concert concentrating on Minimalism.
It seemed appropriate that when the pianist Byron Schenkman made his New York recital debut at the Frick Collection on Sunday he paired works by Mendelssohn with Haydn sonatas.
On Sunday the floor at the Hammerstein Ballroom started quaking from the Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs’s first song, and that was just a midtempo reggae tune.
The jazz guitarist John Scofield played a staunchly exuberant show at B. B. King Blues Club & Grill on Sunday night.
In its “Free Radicals” program at Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, the Viennese contemporary-music ensemble Klangforum Wien acted as a matchmaker and, at times, marriage broker.
John Scott led the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys with the English Concert of London and Concert Royal of New York in a rendition of the “St. Matthew Passion” at St. Thomas on Friday.
Mr. Shank was an alto saxophonist and flutist who helped propel cool-school West Coast jazz to prominence in the 1950s.
For making news in the staid world of classical music, nothing topped David Robertson’s unplanned New York debut as a singer during the symphony’s concert.
New releases from Flo Rida, Mims, the Felice Brothers and Lady Sovereign.
The two surviving Beatles shared a microphone, and then embraces, in their first public performance together since a 2002 memorial concert for George Harrison.
The works of Lok Yin Tang and Kate Moore were played by the Bang on a Can All-Stars in this year’s People’s Commissioning Fund concert.
Jeff Beck, Metallica, Run-DMC, Bobby Womack and Little Anthony and the Imperials were inducted into the museum at a ceremony in Cleveland.
The regional Mexican music industry is focused not on the Internet, but on the cellphone as both a one-stop music source and a symbol of working-class immigrant identity.
The hero of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” would seem to have it all, but his manservant gets the best of their solos. So which, in the end, is the better part?
Jeff Beck, Metallica, Run-DMC, Bobby Womack and Little Anthony and the Imperials were inducted into the museum at a ceremony in Cleveland.
On the British singer Natasha Kahn’s playlist: music by Telepathe, D M Stith, Cat Power, Cut Copy, and Antony and the Johnsons.
Reviews of performances by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Josh Cheatham with Julien Léonard, and Ewa Podles with Garrick Ohlsson.
Singers, chorus members and production staff members will likely strike, said a union leader.
Ten years after the release of their last recording of new material, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, perhaps the most innovative Spanish-language rock group of the 1990s, are back.
“The Beggar’s Opera,” John Gay’s 1728 masterpiece, has inspired a pair of recent adaptations in Manhattan.
The slack-key guitarist Makana performed at the Sage Theater in Times Square on Thursday night.
The clarinetist David Krakauer assembled “Klezmer All-Star Bash,” a concert on Thursday night at Carnegie Hall.
The New York Philharmonic performed works by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky on Thursday evening.
A Malawi court ruled on Friday that Madonna cannot adopt a 3-year-old child there.
How a teenage fan joined the Rolling Stones’ entourage.
“Rock of Ages,” an unrepentant jukebox musical with a lot of baggage and a charmed history, is opening on Broadway.
Raymond Arsenault focuses on Marian Anderson’s 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert, which made her an international symbol of the civil rights movement.
This radiant, wholesome singing actress with one foot in country music and the other in opera brings her all-American charm to the Café Carlyle for two weeks.
David Daniels put his strong, clear voice to good use in performances of works by Bach and Handel at Zankel Hall on Wednesday.
A sampling of noteworthy musical presentations, including oratorios, planned for the holiday season, from Friday through Easter.
A sampling of holiday celebrations in New York, including dance and readings.
B. B. King, Herbie Hancock, Black Eyed Peas and Lauryn Hill will be among the performers heading to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline, for the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Reuters reported.
In Celtic Thunder’s performance at the Beacon Theater on Wednesday, concept almost always trumped execution, with little build, jars in tone, and arrangements hopping clumsily from song to song.
The beleaguered New York City Opera announced its first operatic season since essentially shutting down a year ago during renovations to its home at Lincoln Center.
Mr. Perahia played a magnificent recital, giving sensitive and exciting performances of works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.
A Mendelssohn concert by the pianist Emanuel Ax, the violinist Itzhak Perlman and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday was a reminder of the star power of these celebrity musicians.
The programming philosophy at Le Poisson Rouge, the Greenwich Village club, overlaps with MATA’s mission of presenting young composers who write in any style that suits them.
Shortcomings overshadowed bright spots in the Metropolitan Opera’s lumpy premiere of its revival of “L’Elisir d’Amore.”
For reasons that no one seems able to explain precisely, Lee Konitz is headlining at the Vanguard this week for the first time since 1983.
Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli added a delicious flavor to their deluxe line of theatrically savvy pop-jazz.
Three compilation albums aimed at teenage fans vied for the top spots on this week’s Billboard chart.
When Metallica takes the stage Saturday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Billboard reported, the group will be joined in performance by its former bassist.
Ordinary consumers are being pitted against professional scalpers who scoop up large numbers of tickets in a flash.
This week, the London Symphony Orchestra, led by Valery Gergiev, performed both versions of the composer’s Fourth Symphony vividly and beautifully.
Daryl Sherman’s musical spirit belongs to an era when jazz singing was an expression of pure enjoyment.
It was a celebrity photographer’s dream, or perhaps nightmare, at Criminal Court in Manhattan, when Plaxico Burress, Kelly Bensimon and Ja Rule all made appearances.
John Rich’s “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” is the first great song of the bailout era.
Bernard Purdie, the drummer who created the funky little miracle of syncopation known as the Purdie Shuffle, is playing for the Broadway revival of “Hair.”
Emiliana Torrini sang about breakups and new possibilities at a show at Hiro Ballroom on Saturday night.
Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers flaunted effortless melodies and ably played with texture on Sunday night at Southpaw in Brooklyn.
Madonna’s attempt to adopt a second child from Malawi is expected to be ruled on by a Malawian court on Friday.
Coldplay, Tool and the Beastie Boys (with Michael Diamond, right) will headline the second annual All Points West Music & Arts Festival.
Nickelback won awards for group and album of the year on Sunday, as well as the fan choice award at the Junos, Canada’s annual music awards.
Christopher O’Riley paired songs by the English art-rock band Radiohead with music by Shostakovich at a concert at the Miller Theater on Friday night.
Mr. Jarre was a composer who mastered the musical idiom of the Hollywood epic and was nominated nine times for Academy Awards, winning three.
Ms. Blaisdell was a flutist who played her way into what was then the male world of orchestral music, becoming one of the early women to play a woodwind instrument with the New York Philharmonic.
New releases from Prince, Gorilla Zoe, Diana Krall and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
A new musical production adapted from “American Idiot,” the best-selling album by the punk band Green Day, is scheduled to make its debut in September at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California.
Ordinary consumers are being pitted against professional scalpers who scoop up large numbers of tickets in a flash.
Mr. Bostridge’s expressive, nuanced and clear voice is also ideal for conveying the despair and amorous longing of Schubert’s songs.
This concert was the most completely satisfying of the three Jardin performances I’ve heard, not least because the singers make a finely matched ensemble.
Of all the ways to turn traditional dance music into concert repertory, most are trivial or counterproductive. Chango Spasiuk has created one of the brilliant exceptions.
The cellist Erik Friedlander possesses a deep, singing tone on his instrument, and when he gives into it completely, he can be a heartbreaker.
The Minnesota Orchestra, one of the nation’s premier regional classical orchestras, has announced a 7 percent reduction in its budget.
Wynton Marsalis, Jeff Beck and Ornette Coleman will be among the performers at this year’s Montreal International Jazz Festival.
Webster Hall, the New York club, has reached an agreement with Best Buy to sell recordings of live shows at the chain’s stores in the New York area.
Keith Urban returns with his signature blend of the modern and the traditional in a new album.
Scientists are looking at music with a more analytical eye. Now a former promoter calls herself the first musical pharmacologist.
Reviews of releases by Lucky Thompson, Melvin Gibbs, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Denman Maroney and My Chemical Romance.
The French classical pianist Hélène Grimaud is co-founder of the Wolf Conservation Center.
The canon of Grateful Dead shows was built over 20-something years of the band’s existence, and is still developing.
Jon Pareles reviews "Yonder Is The Clock" by The Felice Brothers and Ben Sisario reports on the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The artist Andrew Kuo has determined the three best albums of the year (that aren’t by Animal Collective).
Images from the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference and Festival in Austin, Tex.
Thousands of fans greeted Phish at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia for its first public concert since 2004.
Bono and the band played a free concert for Fordham students during a live performance on "Good Morning America."
A look inside the renovated concert hall at Lincoln Center, which will reopen in less than a month, as musicians test the acoustics.
Video, images and complete coverage of the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference and Festival in Austin, Tex., on ArtsBeat.
Dave Itzkoff, a reporter for the culture department of The New York Times, and Jon Caramanica, who frequently writes about music for The Times, blogged the awards ceremony.
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