Music

A violinist plays for her father. A singer takes requests. In hospitals and hospices, bedside performers offer a new kind of care.

President Trump appeared to strengthen his grip on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Monday, as 18 board members and the board chairman were removed from...

On Sunday in New Orleans, Kendrick Lamar became the first solo rapper to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, performing a medley of hits, deep cuts and Drake disses.Writing in The New...

Mark-Anthony Turnage has a habit of provoking stuffy opera fans.The revered British composer’s 1988 debut, “Greek,” appalled some audiences by transposing Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” into to a cursing, brawling working-class London family....

Could it be that the lasting impact of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show will be … the return of bell bottoms?At halftime of a fairly dull game (unless, well, you’re an...

Monica Getz, whose tempestuous 24-year marriage to the jazz star Stan Getz was whipsawed by his addictions and who, after losing a protracted legal fight to save the marriage, became an advocate...

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube4. Dua Lipa: “Houdini”My preference, when it comes to the two recent “Houdini” releases (Houdinii?), is this kinetic dance-floor anthem in which Dua Lipa challenges...

But even compressing the grandeur of “Tosca” to a few cellos, bass, piano, flute, trumpet and horn isn’t as out-there as imagining “Salome” for an octet of clarinetists. (To be precise, those...

Ye, the rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West, took back the apology he made in 2023 for his past antisemitic statements, declared that he was a Nazi and professed his...

Giveon, ‘Twenties’“Thought that if I put you first enough / we would last for sure,” Giveon laments, with neat wordplay, in a vintage-style soul ballad complete with strings and electric sitar. The...