Music Review

An Impish Creature That Won’t Be Fenced In

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Ari Mintz for The New York Times

"The Cunning Little Vixen": Isabel Bayrakdarian in this New York Philharmonic production at Avery Fisher Hall.

The New York Philharmonic presents a colorful production of Janacek’s “Cunning Little Vixen” at Avery Fisher Hall.

Music Review

A Classicist Who Enjoys Wild Flights of Imagination

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

The great jazz pianist Barbara Carroll began an engagement at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Tuesday evening.

Books of The Times

‘Fire and Rain’

By DAVID BROWNE
Reviewed by SCOTT TIMBERG

The journalist David Browne recounts the stories behind four famous rock albums made in 1970.

June 23, 2011 5:03 PM ET

Justin Bieber Event Leads to Chaos, Uncertainty and Possible Mussing of Hair

Reports said a man had jumped a barricade at a Macy's event for Justin Bieber and knocked the pop singer to the ground.

June 23, 2011 1:24 PM ET

A Report From the Cloud, and Booker T. Jones

Jon Pareles on storing and accessing music ethereally, and a conversation with Booker T. Jones, the Memphis soul keyboardist.

June 23, 2011 11:45 AM ET

Adele Finds Her Voice and Reschedules Tour Dates

After a bout of laryngitis, Adele will hit the road again in August.

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Music Review

No Easy Road

By ALLAN KOZINN

The classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic performed at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday.

Turkish Singer Resurfaces After Violent Brush With Death

By SUSANNE GÜSTEN

Ibrahim Tatlises made his first public appearance Sunday since being shot in the head three months ago. Mr. Tatlises may be able to sing again, but he may have to do it in prison.

Front Row

POPPING UP A drawing of a kiosk at the Music to Know festival.

Rock and Rags Are Co-Stars

By RUTH LA FERLA

The Music to Know festival in East Hampton, N.Y., in August may be the first planned as a platform for fashion marketing as well.

Music Review

Rootless Rapper Finds His Rhythm

By JON CARAMANICA

“Planet Pit,” the sixth album by the Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, completes his long transformation from crunk-era curio to dance-rap star.

Music Review

Swelter, an ambient sound work, being performed by brass players positioned around Central Park Lake. The event was part of the citywide Make Music New York.

Best Way to the Concert? Get Yourself a Rowboat

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

As part of the citywide Make Music New York, nearly 30 brass players performed “Swelter” at Central Park Lake.

Music Review

A Singer in No Rush, Deploying Her Big Gestures Carefully

By JON CARAMANICA

Sade Adu and her band, on their first American tour in a decade, try turning the Nassau Coliseum into a club.

Shakira, the Colombian pop star and a Unicef ambassador, danced with Israeli and Palestinian children during her visit to a Bilingual school in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Shakira Makes a Star Turn at an Israeli Conference

By ISABEL KERSHNER

Israel’s octogenarian president, Shimon Peres, opened the Israeli Presidential Conference with Shakira by his side.

Music Review

Erik Friedlander, on cello, was joined by Doug Wamble on acoustic guitar in performing his new “Bonebridge” album at Joe's Pub.

Taking the Cello a Ways Down a Country Road

By NATE CHINEN

Erik Friedlander, showing off his pizzicato technique, covered all the songs of his new CD, “Bonebridge,” at Joe’s Pub.

Union negotiators and members on Tuesday at a meeting with City Opera management to talk about next year's plans.

Unions and Ailing City Opera Meet About Next Season

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

New York City Opera let some details about its next season dribble out on Tuesday during a meeting with its unions, which confronted the company’s leader, George Steel.

Music Review

Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

John Schaefer of WNYC radio hosted a League of Composers concert on Saturday night at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.

Katherine G. Farley, Lincoln Center chairwoman and an executive at Tishman Speyer.

Lincoln Center Chairwoman Plays Dual Role in China

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Katherine Farley is helping Lincoln Center produce a performing arts center in China and create an adjacent commercial development.

Music Review

The Ring Jay Hunter Morris in the title role, and Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde, in the San Francisco Opera's production of “Siegfried” on Thursday, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.

A Pair of Siegfrieds Complete the ‘Ring’

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

The San Francisco Opera stages the last two sections of Wagner’s four-part cycle in a production drawing on contemporary American imagery.

From Opinion

Opinionator | The Score

Finding the Score Within

By KEN UENO

How Jimi Hendrix and Bela Bartok saved a man’s life, and why he became a throat-singing composer.

Times Talks

Audio

A Conversation with Emmylou Harris

The country folk singer-songwriter talked to Dana Jennings, a culture editor for The Times, and performed two songs in a recent Times Talks interview.

Multimedia

Slide Show

A Big Tent at Bonnaroo

The 10th installment of the festival in Manchester, Tenn., included performances by a wide variety of acts in a multitude of genres.

Slide Show

Bonnaroo: Day 3

Loretta Lynn, Hanggai, Alison Krauss and more.

Slide Show

Bonnaroo: Days 1 and 2

The Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn., which draws 80,000 rock fans for four days, kicked off on Thursday.

Video

'Weird Al' and the Gaga Saga

"Weird Al" Yankovic navigates copyright law and fair-use rules with his new single, a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way."

Slide Show

Night at the Caravanserai

Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.

The Week in Music

This week: Ben Sisario and Bruce Headlam on the Pandora IPO and what it says about the state of digital music; Rob Kenner on Vybz Kartel, the man and the brand; and new CDs from Barry Manilow; Battles; and Ledisi. Jeremy Egner is your host.