Music
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Arts
What Is a Song?
Is it simply the music flowing out of your earphones? According to the law, the answer is a bit more…
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Magazine
These Legs Were Made for Fashion
Vanessa Williams’s many ensembles in a music video for her new song, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” evoke her knack for portraying…
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Arts
2 Players Sue Philharmonic, Saying They Were Wrongfully Suspended
Matthew Muckey and Liang Wang said they were sidelined without cause by the New York Philharmonic after a recent magazine…
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Arts
Kim Noltemy, Orchestra Veteran, Is Tapped to Lead L.A. Philharmonic
Noltemy, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s chief executive, will take the helm of the Philharmonic as it searches for its next…
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News
Duane Eddy, Whose Twang Changed Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 86
A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first…
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World
India’s Master of Nostalgia Takes His Sweeping Vision to Netflix
In the small Bombay theater that showed big films, his father brought him — over and over again — to…
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Arts
The Wartime Music of Debussy and Komitas, Still Resonating Today
Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and…
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Arts
A Student Orchestra Shouts ‘Mambo!’ and Meets Its Idol
Our photographer followed 95 young musicians for six days as they prepared to perform with Gustavo Dudamel, the next music…
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World
Homelessness Is Especially Hard on Children. Making Music Helps.
“We’re going to be making a beat,” Dannyele Crawford said as the kids settled noisily into their seats at a…
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News
Andrew Davis, 80, Dies; Renowned Conductor Who Championed Britain’s Music
Celebrated for his long tenure with Lyric Opera of Chicago, he led this and other orchestras with force and a…