Keeping the Flame Burning for a Beloved Queen of Salsa

By DAVID GONZALEZ

Fans make their way steadily to Celia Cruz’s mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where photographs of the Queen of Salsa are changed regularly.

• Times Topics: Celia Cruz

Music Review

Mahler’s Landmark Symphony, Delivered With Some Special Meaning

By JAMES R. OESTREICH

Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra brought Mahler’s Ninth Symphony to Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday.

Music Review

Fast Tempos, Fleet Fingers and Poetry

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

On Friday evening at Carnegie Hall, the brilliant pianist Murray Perahia offered an entirely unsentimental interpretation of Schumann’s “Kinderszenen.”

Biblical Passions, Ringing in Church

By STEVE SMITH

Stile Antico, a bright, young early-music vocal ensemble from England, made its New York debut at Corpus Christi Church on Sunday.

Music Review | Mofro

Out of the Swamp, Dripping With Both Wildness and Cool

By NATE CHINEN

J J Grey’s songs chronicle ambiguous truths and unambiguous urges, occasionally lighting on a righteous cause.

Dee Anthony, Manager to Rocker Peter Frampton, Dies at 83

By BEN SISARIO

Mr. Anthony managed the careers of Peter Frampton, Joe Cocker and others with a blunt, streetwise style that made him a rock power broker in the 1970s.

Music Review

Verdi’s Moor, Edgy in Cyprus or Dallas

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

On Friday night, the Dallas Opera opened its 53rd season — and its new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House — with a new production of Verdi’s “Otello.”

To Be Seen and Heard All Around the Town

By JON PARELES

The 29th annual CMJ Music Marathon, the five-day convention and showcase that brought 1,300 bands to a variety of New York venues, ended in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

• Slide Show
• ArtsBeat: The CMJ Music Marathon | Times Topics: CMJ

Critics’ Choice: New CDs

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Reviews of new releases by Rod Stewart, Brian McKnight, Triple C’s and Stefano Bollani.

Music in Review

By STEVE SMITH

Robert Lepage’s technologically groundbreaking production of “La Damnation de Faust,” created for the Metropolitan Opera last season, was revived on Friday night.

Music Review

Friends Get Together, and Even a Solo Instrument Can Join in a Group

By JAMES R. OESTREICH

“Taste of China,” a program of Chinese traditional music, was performed at Zankel Hall on Friday as part of Ancient Paths, Modern Voices, Carnegie Hall’s festival of Chinese culture.

A Composer’s Cancer, a Singer’s Collapse

Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS

A spokeswoman for Andrew Lloyd Weber announced on Sunday that Mr. Lloyd Weber, the 61-year-old composer of “Evita” and other musicals, has prostate cancer.

The New World on the Two Coasts

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

The classical music field is abuzz about the new music directors on opposite American coasts.

Curiosity Spurred the Singers

By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH

New recordings from Renée Fleming and Cecilia Bartoli are like graduate seminars dressed up as recitals.

Shaggy, Yes, but Finessed Just So

By JONAH WEINER

Kurt Vile’s music is a throwback to indie rock’s scruffier, scrappier past.

Playlist

Skiffle Redefined, Afrobeat Resurrected

By JON PARELES

Reviews of recordings by Built to Spill, Bell Horses, Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family, The Dodos, Maps and OOIOO.

'Juliet, Naked'

By NICK HORNBY
Reviewed by MARY DUENWALD

In this novel of obsessive fandom, a reclusive singer-songwriter’s new album upends several lives.

• Excerpt (pdf)

Music Review

A Dutchman Is Finding His Home in Dallas

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Jaap van Zweden, music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which performed on Thursday night, has been embraced both by concertgoers and the orchestra musicians.

Music Review

No Moony Torch Songs, Just Rays of Sunshine

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

The singer Liz Callaway, who performed at the Metropolitan Room on Thursday evening, radiates the sort of sweetness and light that would be cloying if it didn’t feel entirely genuine.

Music Review

Unabashed Chicken-Picking Dudeness

By BEN RATLIFF

The country star Brad Paisley performed at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.

Music Review

Jazz and Funk Roots, Joyfully Unearthed

By BEN RATLIFF

Stefon Harris performed with his quintet, Blackout, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Thursday night.

Hip-Hop at CMJ, All Cities and Types

By JON CARAMANICA

Despite its central role in the indie rock world, the CMJ Music Marathon has always been less relevant to, and affected by, hip-hop. This year, though, it offered a relative bounty.

Music Review | Quanzhou Marionette Theater

Song of the Monk and the Monkey

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Carnegie Hall’s three-week festival celebrating Chinese culture opened with an exhilarating, accessible performance by the Quanzhou Marionette Theater.

Music Review

Punk Bravado (and Wails) Laced With a Little Sugar

By JON CARAMANICA

In Paramore’s world the girl might still be the heartbreaker, but at least you’re getting her side of the story.

Music Review | London Symphony Orchestra

Schubert and Mahler, Together Again

By JAMES R. OESTREICH

Bernard Haitink’s pairing of Mahler and Schubert in his current concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra seems in some ways a natural.

Music Review | Meredith Monk

Bending Melodies on the Way to an Otherworldly Quest

By ALLAN KOZINN

The wonder of Meredith Monk is that having created a musical language and theatrical style, she has been able to stretch and refine them with just about every work.

Music Review | Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg

Longtime Friend of the Lute and 17th-Century Sounds

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

Emma Kirkby’s voice is intensely expressive, as demonstrated in a rare New York appearance.

Lil Wayne Changes Plea to Guilty on Felony Gun Charge

By SEWELL CHAN and COLIN MOYNIHAN

The Grammy-winning rapper will be sentenced to a year in prison under a plea agreement after admitting that a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol was found on his tour bus.

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Revising the Image of Jackson’s Final Days

By BEN SISARIO

The Michael Jackson documentary “This is It” reveals footage of a healthy and nimble singer.

• Times Topics: Michael Jackson | Trailer: 'This Is It'

A Tearful (and Lucrative) Parting of Virtuoso and Violin

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

The violinist Aaron Rosand has sold his ex-Kochanski Guarneri del Gesù for $10 Million.

Music Review

Psychedelia Comes in Many Colors

By JON PARELES

Broadcast took the long way around to its songs, via abstract, foreboding, wordless pieces, when it played its CMJ Music Marathon showcase at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday.

Music Review

Hopscotching Through the Baroque

By ALLAN KOZINN

Rebel, a period-instrument band that performs in various guises, opened the Morgan Library & Museum’s concert season on Tuesday.

Music Review

30-Year Friendship, Celebrated in Song

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

On Tuesday, at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, lightning struck during Victoria Clark and Ted Sperling’s modestly titled “Vicki & Ted Show.”

Music Review

A Lot Like Big Bands, but Far Less Inhibited

By NATE CHINEN

Opening with a scrupulous fanfare and closing with an outbreak of anarchy, the Brooklyn Big Band Bonanza fulfilled much of its promise at the Bell House on Monday.

Music Review

A Georgia Blog Star Plays New York

By JON CARAMANICA

Ernest Greene, the blog favorite who makes music in his Georgia bedroom as the one-man band Washed Out, performed his first show in New York on Tuesday.

Music Review

An Opera, Rarely Heard, From a Troupe, Newly Born

By STEVE SMITH

You had to applaud the chutzpah the Bleecker Street Opera Company displayed in its maiden voyage.

Vic Mizzy, Songwriter of ‘Addams Family’ Fame, Dies at 93

By MIKE HALE

Mr. Mizzy wrote the infernally catchy themes for the 1960s television comedies “The Addams Family” and “Green Acres.”

Music Review

Reflections of Hungary in Visions Old and New

By JAMES R. OESTREICH

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented the New York premiere of David Del Tredici’s 35-minute “Magyar Madness” at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday.

Music Review | R. Kelly

A Stream of Medleys, a Flash of Sincerity

By BEN RATLIFF

The delay of R Kelly’s new album either freed or forced him to put more emphasis on his nonmusical life in his show.

Video Game Review | Brütal Legend

Where Metal, in Its Infinite Variety, Reigns

By SETH SCHIESEL

No game so far this year delivers a deeper, more fully realized aesthetic experience than Brütal Legend.

Critics’ Choice

New CDs

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

New releases from Michael Bublé, Tim McGraw, Buika y Chucho and others.

Music Review | 'The Creation'

An Early-Music Master Follows Haydn Way Back to the Beginning

By JAMES R. OESTREICH

The conductor John Eliot Gardiner was back in Carnegie Hall for the second of two performances commemorating the bicentenary of Haydn’s death.

Music Review | John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey

A Couple’s Dialogue: He Gives Her Swing, She Gives Him Soul

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Mr. Pizzarelli and his wife, Ms. Molaskey, suggest a pop-jazz Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Music Review | Composer Portraits

Melodies Disguised in Whirlwinds of Dissonance and Rhythmic Complexity

By ALLAN KOZINN

Suddenly, it seems, New York has gone Xenakis-mad.

Romance Fades, Partnership Endures

By DAVID CARR

Movie roles brought Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of the group, the Swell Season, together. Music keeps them together.

The Whipping Boys Are Back

By DAVID PEISNER

Once both a multiplatinum phenomenon and a much-mocked symbol of rock excess, Creed hits the road again in search of redemption.

An Ensemble With Many Homes Finds Another

By STEVE SMITH

The Pacifica Quartet, already in residence in three places, prepares to succeed the Guarneri String Quartet at the Metropolitan Museum.