Album Review
Kanye West Writes a Song of Himself on ‘Ye’
On the rapper’s eighth studio album the focus isn’t on America but his all-encompassing self-absorption.
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Cancer Haunts a Composer’s Life and Work
Michael Hersch’s latest piece, “I hope we get a chance to visit soon,” includes settings of emails he exchanged with a friend dying of the disease.
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CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Is Opera Dying? No, But This One Is Staged Among the Dead
A new series, opening with David Hertzberg’s “The Rose Elf,” will produce classical performances in the narrow catacomb at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Gorillaz, Black Thought, MNDR, the Internet and more.
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Credit The Met and James Levine
A reader objects to the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to expunge Mr. Levine from its history.
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Credit Review: ‘Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart’ Has Music and Passion. But Not Romance.
The intimate yet abstract correspondence between Tchaikovsky and a wealthy widow is interspersed with song in this production.
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Credit A 50-Year Run: The Week in Classical Music
On Wednesday Clara Longstreth celebrated five decades in charge of the 70-member New Amsterdam Singers.
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Credit Review: ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ the Opera, Falls Short of Its Potential
Charles Wuorinen’s adaptation of the Annie Proulx short story, at New York City Opera, is often overly busy and ineffectively intricate.
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Credit A Soldier Died After Racist Hazing. Now His Story Is an Opera.
The life and death of Pvt. Danny Chen, who killed himself after being brutally hazed in Afghanistan, is the subject of “An American Soldier.”
