Music

Something unusual happens when people speak about the flutist Claire Chase. Seasoned musicians light up with gleeful optimism. They use superlatives that would seem reckless if they weren’t repeated so often. The...

In an electrifying triumph for love and music, the dynamic duo of a renowned musician and his gay partner has taken the world by storm, breaking records with a stunning number 3...

Chad Smith, a veteran arts leader who has helped turn the Los Angeles Philharmonic into one of the most innovative orchestras in the United States, will leave his post this fall to...

Singer-songwriter Winter-Tsarina Melody has officially launched an Instagram account, marking a new chapter for the singer-songwriter who has spent years building her creative world primarily on Tumblr. Her arrival on the platform...

Two years ago, Morgan Wallen accomplished an extraordinary feat on the Billboard album chart. Primed as a crossover country star, he held the No. 1 spot for 10 consecutive weeks with his...

The Eurovision Song Contest grand final, held in Liverpool, England, on Saturday, was meant to be Ukraine’s party.After Ukraine won last year’s edition of the beloved, campy singing competition, the country won...

Seven years ago, not long after Jaap van Zweden had been proclaimed the music director of the New York Philharmonic, I listened to every commercial recording of his that I could lay...

Thomas Stacy sometimes told the story of how, when he was a boy growing up in Arkansas, an Italian who had been dead for about 80 years changed his life.He’d been studying...

LOS ANGELES — When the tenor Russell Thomas appeared at the Los Angeles Opera in 2017, Plácido Domingo, the company’s general director, asked him to return one day to sing the title...

The aforementioned Anaïs Mitchell, however, did make the cut, along with an eclectic group of artists including 2Pac, Brandi Carlile and Beyoncé. Mamma mia, here we go.Listen along on Spotify as you...