The pianist brings a singing quality and seeming effortlessness to the complete set of Songs Without Words ...
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A leading star at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1960s and '70s, she was one of the first Black singers to have a major stage career.
Reich, whose music will be featured in birthday celebrations this month, said his latest work was "one of the best things I've done in a long time."
From syncopated funk to the Latin requiem mass, Gregorian chant to bureaucratic recitative, the score to David Önaç new oratorio, premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra, is serious and beautiful ...
At Carnegie Hall, this orchestra gave gobsmacking performances of the classics. If only it could show some of the creativity it has at home.
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts ...
David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd's of London after research uncovered its slavery links ...
Conductor Alain Altinoglu brings weight and purpose while the instrumental solos are piquant and precise.
Lise Davidsen's Verdi, Anthony Davis's "The Central Park Five" and a new take on Britten's cello suites are among our selections.
Why include traditional Georgian dance in a production of "Macbeth"? For the opera, the action director wanted something visceral: "I wanted to actually smell the sweat."