Music

As the longtime cabaret backers Adela and Larry Elow approached their 90s, their thoughts turned to today’s teenagers and what the Great American Songbook means to their future — whether...

DETROIT — It was around the time when Brünnhilde summoned her horse to ride into a funeral pyre, setting off a world-cleansing fire and flood, that I found myself fighting...

Ruth Falcon, a soprano who sang leading roles at major international opera houses and went on to become a sought-after voice teacher, mentoring prominent artists including Deborah Voigt, Sondra Radvanovsky...

The concert world has a few less frustrated fans, now that a Russian billionaire’s company has returned the money for two canceled concerts at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island,...

Before the coronavirus slammed the brakes on live music this spring, New York jazz fans had recently grown accustomed to a new thrill: If you went out enough, you would...

It’s time once again to honor some of country music‘s biggest stars. Stars will take to the stage Wednesday for the 2020 CMT Music Awards, which will, as many awards...

The last time Keith Jarrett performed in public, his relationship with the piano was the least of his concerns. This was at Carnegie Hall in 2017, several weeks into the...

Since early in his career, Yotam Haber has grappled with what it means to be a contemporary Jewish composer. The tentative answers offered by his music — full of allusions,...

Sam Smith needs to dance. Nearly every night during the pandemic, Smith has twirled around in the garden, blasting Robyn via headphones. The Grammy-winning singer and songwriter — who came...

Jon Gibson, a saxophonist and composer who played a foundational role in Minimalist music, died on Oct. 11 in Springfield, Mass., where he had been living for his last few...