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“The Queen of Spades”: Karita Mattila and Vladimir Galouzine in Elijah Moshinsky’s production of this Tchaikovsky work at the Metropolitan Opera.

Music Review

Betting on Not-So-Sure Things: Love and a Trick to Win at Cards

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

The Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons takes on the tough, revealing assignment of Tchaikovksy’s “Queen of Spades” at the Metropolitan Opera.

A Festival of Japan’s Culture Proceeds

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

When Carnegie Hall announced Japan as the focus of this season’s big festival, it did not seem a particularly pathbreaking subject. Now it seems prescient.

Television Review

Basking in a Rapper’s Glow, Feeling Burned

By JON CARAMANICA

“Love & Hip Hop,” beginning Monday night on VH1, shows the women behind rappers struggling to stay at their side.

March 12, 2011

Robert Spano Named New Aspen Music Festival Music Director

The Aspen Music Festival and School, a rite of passage for many of the nation's leading musicians but an institution fraught with dissension in the recent past, has hired the conductor Robert Spano as its new music director.

March 11, 2011

Cesare Siepi Celebration Announced

The family of the Metropolitan Opera bass Cesare Siepi is holding a celebration of his life at the Bruno Walter Auditorium on Saturday.

March 11, 2011

Gergiev Cancels Another Performance

Mr. Gergiev missed Wednesday's performance of "Boris Godunov" and was to have returned for Saturday's matinee.

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Music Review

When We All Pulled Together, Like Those Boys in Uniform

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Stage Door Canteen: Broadway Responds to World War II,” a Lyrics & Lyricist show at the 92nd Street Y, was informative history and a breezy evocation of national solidarity.

Joe Morello, a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, at a jazz festival in Boston in 1966.

Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82

By STEVE SMITH

Mr. Morello’s elegant, economical playing in the quartet sounded natural and effortless even in unusual time signatures.

Music Review

Rameau’s Blend, the Toast of France

By STEVE SMITH

Les Arts Florissants, an early-music orchestra directed by William Christie, presented versions of Rameau’s ”Anacréon” and ”Pygmalion.”

Music Review

From Twilight’s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour

By STEVE SMITH

The Emerson String Quartet teamed with the flutist James Galway to present a program that included the premiere of Thomas Adès’s “Four Quarters.”

Music Review

Looking for the Gal That Got Away?

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

The New York Pops, with Judy Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft and guest singers, tries the impossible: to recreate Garland’s famous 1961 Carnegie Hall concert.

Gangsta Folk

By ROB HOERBURGER

Keren Ann sings softly — oh, so softly — of the dark side.

The Playlist

Jack Hardy at his Village apartment in 2001.

Jack Hardy, Folk Singer and Keeper of the Tradition, Dies at 63

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Hardy’s Greenwich Village recordings and songwriting workshops kept alive the neighborhood tradition of counterculture troubadours.

Gabor Bretz, in the role of the murderous duke.

The Love Story Behind Bartok’s 7 Dark Doors

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

The principals in the New York Philharmonic’s coming presentation of “Bluebeard’s Castle” consider what it says about life and love.

Playlist

Tumblr Soul, Rocker Country, Teenage Tartness

By JON CARAMANICA

New releases from Frank Ocean, Aaron Lewis, Etana and Sky Ferreira.

The tenor Lawrence Brownlee with Renée Fleming in the Metropolitan Opera production of Rossini’s “Armida” last month.

Top Notes That Shatter The Glass Ceiling

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

The tenor Lawrence Brownlee, a regular at the Met and La Scala, has bypassed many racial (and height) stereotypes and hopes to attract more black listeners to opera.