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The jazz bass player Matthew Garrison doesn’t like to slow down. “I’m always thinking, doing,” he said. As a performer, he has toured with Herbie Hancock and has upcoming shows …
How a Jazz Musician and Entrepreneur Spends His Sundays Read MoreMuch of the early fallout surrounding the release of Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” — in the sense that there can be any true fallout from a militarily precise rollout that moves in …
Pop’s Material Girls, Rich With Influence Read MoreIt’s a little hard to tell if MIA is skewering the self-involvement of social media culture on “Popular” or if she’s aiming for a TikTok hit herself — but hey, …
MIA Takes Aim at Fame, and 7 More New Songs Read MoreLENOX, Mass. — The problem with “Lessons in Love and Violence” has always been that it is not “Written on Skin.” “Skin,” George Benjamin’s unflinchingly savage second opera with the …
Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America Read MoreWe would’ve just called her ONJ now. But part of the appeal, I think, was all of that name, the possible royalty of it. Nobody wanted to waste a syllable. …
Olivia Newton-John: That Headband Was a Crown Read MoreThe Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra bears the name of a festival that no longer exists, but over the last three weeks, it played 12 concerts that showed it still has …
At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values Read MoreBAYREUTH, Germany — About 150 years ago, in a megalomaniac’s coup, Richard Wagner built a theater on a hilltop here in northern Bavaria. His immense, complex, innovative operas had never …
Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic Read MoreThe question from the Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo came out of the blue: Would David Henry Hwang, the American playwright, consider adapting his Broadway hit “M. Butterfly” for the opera …
The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ Read MoreBoy problems? Carly Rae Jepsen’s got them in spades on “Beach House,” a cheeky earworm from her forthcoming album “The Loneliest Time.” Jepsen employs her deadpan sense of humor as …
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Brand-New Boy Problems, and 7 More New Songs Read More