Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats
Eight years after the Live Nation and Ticketmaster merger, the giant company’s power has drawn complaints from competitors and scrutiny from regulators.
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Eight years after the Live Nation and Ticketmaster merger, the giant company’s power has drawn complaints from competitors and scrutiny from regulators.
By BEN SISARIO and GRAHAM BOWLEY
Many modern biographers attempt to show the composer was a forward-looking, quasi-scientific thinker. But his personal Study Bible proves different.
By MICHAEL MARISSEN
Greta Kline has been cutting a path for fiercely independent singer-songwriters for almost a decade. On her band’s new album, “Vessel,” she gets even bolder.
By SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON
The tracks that caught our critics’ attention this week, from Cardi B, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, John Parish with PJ Harvey and more.
By JON PARELES, JON CARAMANICA and GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
In Verdi’s “Luisa Miller,” the celebrated tenor-turned-baritone, after almost 60 years of singing, gives a performance not to be missed.
By ZACHARY WOOLFE
Gustavo Dudamel, Bernstein and “Kol Nidrei” were among the highlights.
Kirill Petrenko, who will lead the Berlin Philharmonic, led his Bavarian State Orchestra in a sparkling performance of Strauss’s opera.
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Nature-immersed, John Luther Adams’s “Become Desert” follows his “Become Ocean,” which won the Pulitzer in 2014 and a Grammy for the Seattle Symphony.
By SETH COLTER WALLS
Condola Rashad stars in George Bernard Shaw’s classic, and National Geographic plunges Earth’s perplexities.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES