After allegations of sexual harassment against the opera star Plácido Domingo surfaced last summer, American arts organizations responded by canceling his appearances. European institutions, though, stuck with him. So it...
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Nearing his 80th birthday in March 2018, the tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd wanted to commemorate the occasion by revisiting old music with a new band, mixing longtime collaborators and first-timers....
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The rapper Pop Smoke had been out that night, returning late to the four-bedroom Spanish-style house where he was staying in the Hollywood Hills. Around 4 a.m., soon after he...
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Carnegie Hall’s last full presentation of Beethoven’s symphonies — Simon Rattle leading the Berlin Philharmonic five years ago — made a case for why this stale cycle should be retired....
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ATLANTA — Between the summer of 2016, when the Atlanta rapper Lil Baby got out of prison on drug and gun charges, and the end of 2018, when he solidified...
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The trend of gadgets that rethink the physical ways we make music is continuing with a little wearable device called Music Fingers. It literally puts music at your fingertips, and...
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Just like every celebrity romance in Hollywood, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson’s story will never really end, even though their engagement did. Pete Davidson joked about Ariana Grande in his...
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As the union representing opera performers prepared to release the results of an inquiry finding that the superstar Plácido Domingo had engaged in “inappropriate activity” with women, it was quietly...
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Saudi Arabian officials are calling for the arrest of a female rapper whose new music video celebrates women from Mecca — Islam’s holiest city — as “powerful and beautiful.” The...
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Singing isn’t typically in the job description when you’re an orchestral musician. But the Budapest Festival Orchestra is not a typical orchestra, and on Sunday afternoon at David Geffen Hall,...
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