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Music Review | Bebel Gilberto: Sounds of Contentment (Words Are Optional)
The singer Bebel Gilberto and her band merged the delicacy of bossa nova with the throbs of club music at Hiro Ballroom on Wednesday.
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H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn and Mozart Scholar, Dies at 83
Mr. Landon was an American musicologist, who had a knack for making musicology seem exciting to the general public.
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Music Review | Baby Jane Dexter: Not Shy in the Way She Works a Lyric
Baby Jane Dexter’s new show at the Metropolitan Room is aptly named “All About Love” because it covers so many aspects.
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Music Review | Richard Tucker Music Foundation: Opera’s Night to Take New Voices Into the Fold
The annual concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation took place at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday evening.
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Music Review | New York New Music Ensemble: From Electronica’s Infancy, When Computers Filled Rooms, Not Laps
The New York New Music Ensemble played works by Mario Davidovsky at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday.
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Music: Debussy’s Homage to Poe, With the Blanks Filled In
Opéra Français de New York presented what was promoted as the American premiere of “a rare double bill of two works by Debussy” last weekend at Florence Gould Hall.
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Music Review | Sonic Youth: Old Rockers Harnessing the Old Power
Sonic Youth has dismantled and reassembled so many rock-band strategies over the years that it can begin to feel unnerving when a simple, durable idea takes hold.
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Music Review | 'Nozze di Figaro': Pratfalls at the Palace, Upstairs or Downstairs
The only thing missing from the Metropolitan Opera’s latest revival of Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” on Monday night was a starter’s pistol.
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Music Review | Kaija Saariaho: Finnish Composer Bursts Some of Her Own Myths
Kaija Saariaho’s music is consistently exciting and eventful, and the International Contemporary Ensemble played a compact but persuasive selection of her works.
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Music Review | Andrea Marcovicci: Ever a Huckleberry Friend, Come Rain or Come Shine
Andrea Marcovicci’s new show at the Oak Room, a tribute to the songwriter Johnny Mercer, should perpetuate her reign as the queen of high-class cabaret nostalgia.
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Rihanna: Fiercely Introspective
Rihanna’s new album, “Rated R,” is a response to her breakup with Chris Brown.
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Music Review | The Pixies: Pixies Celebrate Milestone for Fans of a Cult Album
The Pixies’ show on Monday at Hammerstein Ballroom was sturdy, dutiful and not particularly thrilling.
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ABC Drops Adam Lambert, and CBS Picks Him Up
Two days after giving a sexually charged performance, Adam Lambert found himself abruptly dropped by one network morning show and just as abruptly booked on another.
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Music Review | Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro: Cuban Musical Pioneers Celebrate an Island’s Soul
There’s no antiquarian dust on Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro, the Cuban band that got started in 1927 and performed on Thursday at S.O.B.’s.
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Books of The Times: The Voice That Helped Remake Culture
Terry Teachout’s biography restores Louis Armstrong to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists.
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Serving Up Rockers, Out of Their Shells
A new cooking show on the Independent Film Channel combines invites musicians into the kitchen.
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Popular Author’s Audiobook Tries a New Format: Vinyl
David Sedaris’s publisher was drawn to the quirky idea of offering his “Live for Your Listening Pleasure” in a limited album format.
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Music Review | Cameron Carpenter: A Showman of the Organ Pulls Back the Curtain
Everything the organist Cameron Carpenter did during his concert was meant to show his audience exactly what he was up to, without compromising the serious music he played.
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Music Review | Steve Grossman: A Stylistic and Geographic Traveler Savors His Homecoming
Mr. Grossman set a low-key tone for his official re-emergence.
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Music Review | Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval: The John Henry Who Might Have Been
The Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval performed Julia Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer.”
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Music Review | 'Too Marvelous for Words': Those Amorous Lyrics, Borrowed From the Birds
The singer Ann Hampton Callaway brought the house to its feet as the New York Pops orchestra celebrated the centennial of the songwriter Johnny Mercer.
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Arts, Briefly: Justin Bieber Fans in Melee at a Mall
A Long Island mall appearance by the 15-year-old pop singer Justin Bieber ended in minor injuries and one arrest after fans became unruly, The Associated Press reported.
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Music Review | 'Il Trittico': Desperate Woman Times 3
Patricia Racette, a versatile, dramatically astute performer, tackled all the heroines of Puccini’s three one-act operas.
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Swift and Jackson Win Big at AMAs
Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning five awards including artist of the year.
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Critics' Choice: New CDs
New releases from Rihanna, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Shakira, Susan Boyle and Leona Lewis.
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The Magic Pen: Mozart Operas Up Close
With the publication of “The Magic Flute,” a series of bibliophile facsimiles of the seven most important Mozart operas is complete.
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Elisabeth Soderstrom, Swedish Soprano, Dies at 82
Ms. Soderstrom was an opera star, who was acclaimed for the plangent richness of her singing and for a repertory that included leading roles in the Janacek operas.
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Spotlight Garden City: Rock Songs and Rubber Ducks
Bari Koral and her band will perform tunes for tykes at the Long Island Children’s Museum on Nov. 27 and 28.
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Arts: In Chant, Listening and Singing Become One
More people have sought out chant at Zen meditation centers, Buddhist retreats, plainsong-infused candlelit church services, and yoga studios, and it is also growing as an artistic pursuit.
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Sunday Styles Preview: Hip-Hop’s New Steps
Jerking is a Los Angeles dance phenomenon that comes with its own dress code.
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Music Review | Big Star: A Band Meandering Down Memory Lane
Big Star motored through its catalog in polite and dutiful fashion, about 20 songs in a little more than an hour at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.
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Music Review | Milton Nascimento: A Brazilian High Priest Looks Back
The Brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento performed at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night.
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National Briefing | West: Nevada: Records on Jackson Death
Michael Jackson’s doctor bought a powerful anesthetic and had it shipped to California, where it was found at Mr. Jackson’s bedside after he died, court documents show.
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Music Review | Savion Glover: Sounding Board for the Dancing That Would Be Music
Savion Glover, the tap dancer, has been performing this week at the Blue Note with four major figures in jazz. It’s all being recorded for video, but also for audio.
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Music: John Mayer Just Has to Please the Girls
Despite the persistent pessimism of its songs, “Battle Studies,” the artist’s fourth album, remains polite, affable and vulnerable enough to ensure that his female fans won’t stray.
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Music Review | Melinda Doolittle: A Survivor of ‘Idol’ With Heart
The former “American Idol” contestant Melinda Doolittle performed on Thursday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
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From Mom’s Basement to the Top of the Chart
Adam Young, who performs under the name Owl City, has become a textbook illustration of how the music business needs new and old forms of media to make an artist a star.
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Music Review | Philadelphia Orchestra: Mahler’s Puzzling Seventh, Played With Chemistry
The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Christoph Eschenbach, offered a nuanced interpretation of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony at Carnegie Hall on Thursday. Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
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A New Musical Marriage in Los Angeles
Gustavo Dudamel, Hollywood star: duly noted. But now the real work begins.
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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Maestro Who Said No Returns to Philharmonic
On Thursday night Riccardo Muti led the New York Philharmonic for the first time this season in a program of works by Liszt, Elgar and Prokofiev at Avery Fisher Hall.
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Cultured Traveler: The Indie Music Pillars of Athens, Greece
A collection of new bars and galleries are catering to the city’s growing post-alternative scene.
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Playlist: Worlds Rural, Urban, Midlife, Teenage
Reviews of releases by Juelz Santana & YelaWolf, Justin Bieber, Flyleaf, Bomshel, Justin Moore and Dude ’N Nem.
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Music Review | Aprile Millo: Strauss, Neapolitan Tunes and a Festive Singalong
The soprano Aprile Millo made her New York recital debut with an eclectic program of works by Donaudy, Wolf-Ferrari and Rachmaninoff at the Rose Theater on Tuesday.
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Music Review | Philip Glass: Glass Looks to the Heavens, Again
Mr. Glass’s weighty and tangled opera, “Kepler,” which arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, examines the relationship between science and religion.
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