Music
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Arts
What Spatial Audio Can and Cannot Do for Classical Music
Immersive audio formats, while newer for pop, have been used by composers for decades. But not all works call for…
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News
Jerry Moss, the ‘M’ of A&M Records, Is Dead at 88
In partnership with Herb Alpert, he turned a small independent label into a powerhouse with a roster full of superstars.
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Arts
For Classical Music, Every Summer Is a Liberation
During a time of year in which anything can be a stage, the joy of music making has room to…
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Arts
A Farewell to Mostly Mozart, and to Its Music Director
Louis Langrée led a week of concerts to conclude his two-decade tenure with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.
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Books
The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World
Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.
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News
This Is the Music America Needs
In an Era of Extreme Polarization, Can Music Bring Us Together? Listen to the music that inspired this piece and…
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Arts
Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision
New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s “wonderful world” in full,…
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Arts
Review: An American Opera Gets the Attention It Needs Abroad
Anthony Braxton’s “Trillium X,” part of a sweeping cycle of operas that began in the 1980s, finally premiered in Prague.
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Arts
‘Spamalot’ Revival to Open on Broadway This Fall
The new production, directed by Josh Rhodes, had a brief run at the Kennedy Center in Washington in May. Casting…
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World
Britpop’s Back. But What Happened to Cool Britannia?
Some of the biggest ’90s bands are playing major gigs across Britain again, and headlining festivals abroad. Yet Britpop’s swaggering…