Music

Early in “The Hours,” Puts introduces passing hints of distinctions between the women’s worlds: for 1923, austere piano and a curdled atmosphere of syncopated winds and eerie pricks of strings; for 1949,...

Judith Fa, Sabine Devieilhe, sopranos; Stéphane Degout, baritone; Ensemble Pygmalion; Raphaël Pichon, conductor (Harmonia Mundi)Franz Schubert, master melodist and progenitor of the song cycle, never wrote for the theater with success, producing...

“She has no vanity about her,” said Victoria Robey, a member of the organization’s board. “She just wants to see Sphinx be the best it can be. And she’s fantastic at fund-raising....

This was more or less the same lucid vision of the piece that Petrenko offered with his former ensemble, the Bavarian State Orchestra of Munich, in a recording released last year. With...

Gal Costa, one of Brazil’s greatest singers and a model for generations of Brazilian performers, died on Wednesday at her home in São Paulo. She was 77.Her death was announced on her...

Later that year, convinced that his future lay with the soul music of emerging vocal groups like the Intruders and the Delfonics, Mr. Tarsia borrowed against his home and used his savings...

Elizabeth Stewart, a folk singer, pianist and composer who furthered the legacy of her musical family and the culture of the ethnic grouping known as Scottish Travellers through her recordings, performances and...

My first job was “The Leftovers” . That was with no résumé, but the creator of the show, Damon Lindelof, saw my audition and was like, “That guy.” He took me out...

ACCRA, Ghana — When Maxine Angel Opoku was still an upstart musician, relatively unknown and struggling to stand out in Ghana’s competitive music scene, she sang about love, romance and being sexy.Then,...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherThe commercial success of Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” has verged on the comical. In its first week of release, it moved the equivalent of almost 1.6...