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Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette of Despondency at Town Hall
The Magnetic Fields performed the first of three nights at Town Hall on Wednesday night.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-12
Metropolitan Museum’s Western Instruments, in a Shinier Home
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently reopened its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments after eight months.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-12
Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Beethoven and Franck Sparkle With Muti, a Avery Fisher Hall
For the final week of his visit with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, Riccardo Muti is conducting a peculiarly balanced program.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-12
Music Review | Alice in Chains: Dancing Around Death, With Elephant in Room at Terminal 5
Layne Staley, the late front man for Alice in Chains, was not mentioned onstage during the band’s performance at Terminal 5 on Tuesday, but his absence was central.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-12
Music Review | Mariinsky Theater Orchestra: At Carnegie, Gergiev Fosters Teamwork for Berlioz ‘Troyens’
Valery Gergiev led the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and chorus in a concert performance of Berlioz’s epic opera “Les Troyens” on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Carnegie Hall.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-12
Mozart-Haydn Festival set for Ottawa
Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra plans to salute the work of contemporaries Mozart and Haydn in a special program during its 2010-11 season.
cbc.ca 2010-03-11
Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales
In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court has ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads ...
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-11
Taio Cruz's 'Break Your Heart' zooms to No. 1 on Hot 100
Biggest jump for first charting single: From No. 53 to No. 1 on 'Billboard' Hot 100.
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-11
Arts, Briefly: Lady Antebellum Returns to Top of Chart
Six new albums entered the Billboard Top 10 this week, but none could best the two titles that have dominated the chart for the last five weeks.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-11
EMI Music Names a New Chief
Charles Allen was named executive chairman of EMI Music. He replaces Elio Leoni-Sceti, who is leaving the company.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-11
Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber’s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum
On Tuesday, the centenary of Samuel Barber’s birth, the Ying Quartet performed the composer’s Op. 11 String Quartet in Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-11
Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier
The Grawemeyer Players, a faculty ensemble from the University of Louisville, performed works by winners of the university’s annual composition prize at Weill Recital Hall.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-11
‘The Nose,’ and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera
Three critics for The New York Times discuss the music, the art and the literary threads of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the Shostakovich opera “The Nose.”
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-11
Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-11
Robbie Williams loved smoking cannabis
ROBBIE Williams has revealed the drug's binge-eating side effects were making him fat.
news.com.au 2010-03-10
Michael Jackson 'was a ladies' man'
MICHAEL Jackson was a heterosexual guy with normal desires, his trusted security team says.
news.com.au 2010-03-10
Jennifer Hudson shines up NCAA theme 'One Shining Moment'
Jennifer Hudson will have her One Shining Moment. The Grammy and Oscar winner will perform the song that plays each year at ...
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-10
'Anna Nicole' opera to premiere next February
The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano ...
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-10
Lady Antebellum trio writes own country/pop success story
When Lady Antebellum's second album, 'Need You Now,' came out, few anticipated it would sell nearly a half-million copies in ...
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-10
Music Review | Yelawolf: Alabama Rapper at Brooklyn Bowl, With ‘Trunk Muzik’ Mixtape
Yelawolf, while an easy fetish object — white, rural, tattooed, skateboarder-friendly, an anomaly among anomalies — isn’t an outsider in Southern rap.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-10
Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall
The concert presented by Max Lifchitz and his North/South Chamber Orchestra at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday was billed as a 30th-anniversary gala.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-10
Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993
There’s a lot of meta-sublimity going on right now in indie rock. Sometimes it really is sublime. Now Harvey Milk is on tour for a record it made in 1993.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-10
MtyMx Expands Indie-Rock Frontier to Mexico
MtyMx, a rock music festival in Monterrey, Mexico, will take place on the grounds of a drive-in movie theater over three days beginning March 20.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-10
Hip-hop giant drops condom at Oscars
THE hip-hop impresario, a friend of Sophie Monk, dropped a condom at an Oscars party.
news.com.au 2010-03-09
Taylor Swift coming to Cavendish
Grammy winner Taylor Swift is set to play at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival in P.E.I. in July.
cbc.ca 2010-03-09
Lil Wayne gets 1 year in jail for gun charge
Rapper Lil Wayne has finally been sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty to a weapons charge and will be serving that time in New York City jails.
cbc.ca 2010-03-09
Pink Floyd sues EMI over online royalties
British rock band Pink Floyd has launched a lawsuit against its record company, EMI, claiming it has miscalculated royalty payments for online sales.
cbc.ca 2010-03-09
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Mark Linkous dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound
Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself ...
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-09
The playlist: Anais Mitchell's 'Flowers,' 10 more tracks
Pick from Anais Mitchell's 'Flowers,' V.V. Brown's 'Back in Time,' ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' and more.
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-09
Listen Up: Ludacris engages in 'Battle of the Sexes'
The rapper takes a cheeky look at men, women and infidelity.
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-09
Pop artists add classical artistry to albums
Beck and Sting, to name two, are taking orchestras on tour.
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-09
Multitasker rapper Ludacris runs his own show
The Grammy-winning artist has his hands full with a new album out, a tour with the Black Eyed Peas and a slew of side interests.
rssfeeds.usatoday.com 2010-03-09
Domingo Has Polyp Removed From Colon
A spokeswoman said surgeons used laparoscopic surgery to remove the polyp and that Placido Domingo is expected to fully recover.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
The Bowery Presents....Shows in Boston
The company will present live music at the Royale club.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
For Lil Wayne, Third Sentencing Date Yields a Year at Rikers
The rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr., had pleaded guilty in October, after being arrested in 2007.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel
Both the concise and the verbose sides of Shostakovich were represented on Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
Music Review | Argento Chamber Ensemble: Sneezes, Hiccups, Laughs and a Chamber Group
“Bodymusic,” is a witty, imaginative new piece presented by the Argento Chamber Ensemble at the Miller Theater on Friday.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
Music Review | Jean-Guihen Queyras: Muscular Renditions of Bach, Schubert and Debussy
on Sunday the French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras made his New York recital debut at the Frick Collection, with Alexandre Tharaud accompanying him.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
Music Review | Jeanine Tesori: Her Thoroughly Modern Music Inspired by Gospel and Opera
Jeanine Tesori, as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, was the host of an autobiographical extravaganza at the Allen Room.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
For New York City Opera Season, Bernstein, Strauss and New Works
The struggling New York City Opera, operating with a slender financial cushion, announced plans on Tuesday for another stripped down, five-production season.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-09
Corgan has no Love for Courtney
THE rocker got so fed up working with Courtney Love he's not going to let her release any of the material.
news.com.au 2010-03-08
Arts | Westchester: At Caramoor, a Focus on Songs of the Belle Époque
A program of French art songs that will blur distinctions between classical and popular idioms, but sharpen the interpretive focus.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
Playlist | Phoenix: From France With Romance, and Broad Tastes
A Q. & A. with members of the French indie-pop group Phoenix.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
Music Review | Todd Snider: A Bit Wry and Rough at the Edges
The 43-year-old alt-country singer-songwriter Todd Snider looked the epitome of a scruffy modern troubadour ambling along a rutted Southern highway on the way to nowhere.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
Music Review | Boston Baroque: Praise of Mary at Eventide Resounds Across 400 Years
Boston Baroque’s music director, Martin Pearlman, says he considers the Vespers one of the ensemble’s signature works, with good reason.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
Mark Linkous, Leader of Sparklehorse Band, Dies at 47
Mr. Linkous was a singer and songwriter whose music was renowned in indie-rock and alt-country circles for its haunted, allusive themes and fragile beauty.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
Philip Langridge, British Operatic Tenor, Dies at 70
At the height of his powers, Mr. Langridge produced a warm tone with a richness and flexibility he used astutely in complex, emotionally charged roles as well as in comic parts.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
Arts, Briefly: Stevie Wonder Honored in France
Almost 30 years after he was first named to receive the Commander of Arts and Letters award, Stevie Wonder accepted it from the French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand, Agence France-Presse reported.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
Dispute Heats Up Over Proposed New Fees for Playing Songs on the Radio
Songwriters and music publishers get royalty payments, but musicians and record companies do not. Now there is a renewed push to revisit that.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard
After a decade of near-death experiences, the Internet music service is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public.
feeds.nytimes.com 2010-03-08
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