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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah’s new album, “Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning,” is his first on which he doesn’t touch the trumpet. Instead, he extends the legacy of Black masking Indians in New Orleans.
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After the country star’s “Try That in a Small Town” video was criticized as offensive, right-wing support sent the song to No. 2 on the singles chart.
Some of the biggest ’90s bands are playing major gigs across Britain again, and headlining festivals abroad. Yet Britpop’s swaggering sense of national self-belief feels like a distant memory.
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Make It New and Difficult: The Music of Arnold Schoenberg
John Adams reviews “Schoenberg: Why He Matters,” in which Harvey Sachs explores the artistic, academic and spiritual life of a 20th-century cultural giant.
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Has Scott Joplin’s ‘Thoroughly American Opera’ Found Its Moment?
“Treemonisha” — brilliant, flawed and unfinished — is ripe for creative reimagining at a time when opera houses are looking to diversify the canon.
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
The latest in a series of Julius Eastman recordings, a new opera by Christopher Cerrone and an EP from Ashley Bathgate are among the highlights.
Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’
Cutting-edge technology has again come to the Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner premiered his final opera with the latest stagecraft in 1882.
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Review: At Mostly Mozart, the Sense of an Ending
Louis Langrée, in his last season with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, conducted a classic Langrée program: Mozart and a premiere by Amir ElSaffar.
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Seismometers can pick up many types of ground vibrations but this drew comparisons to the “Beast Quake” of 2011, when Seattle football fans roared in celebration of a last-minute Seahawks touchdown.
By Chang Che
Ten bonus songs from our hip-hop anniversary project.
The group’s original bass player, he was a member from 1971 to 1977, but he was never one to jostle for the spotlight.
By Alex Williams
In any society, she would have been radical for a pop star. But in Ireland, she was revolutionary.
By Una Mullally
The London police force said that the Irish singer was found dead at a home in the city.
By Alex Marshall
Tearing up a photo was the moment nobody forgot. The performance that preceded it was just as powerful.
By Jon Caramanica
The Irish singer had an evocative voice and cast a powerful silhouette onstage.
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The Irish singer’s shaved head was as much a part of her identity and allure as her sound.
By Vanessa Friedman
Plus: Violent J in our 50 Rappers, 50 Stories project, new songs and new snacks.
A news clip of a Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta was edited out of the music video after criticism that the song and video were offensive.
By Remy Tumin
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