Music
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World
Why Was This Treasure of Musical Theater All but Lost to the Ages?
Three Black book musicals were Broadway hits in the 1970s: “Purlie” in 1970, “The Wiz” in 1975 and “Raisin” in 1973, based on Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” That was Blacker than Broadway had been since 50 years before, when the 1921 hit ...
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Magazine
A Serene Oasis for Making Music
This article is part of our Design special section about water as a source of creativity. The first things you notice upon entering Long Pond Studio are the glass windows and doors. They’re huge — the doors are eight-feet square — and frame pastoral ...
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Arts
Universal Music Artists Will Return to TikTok
The two companies reached a new licensing deal, ending a three-month stalemate that kept some of pop’s biggest stars off the platform.
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Arts
What Is a Song?
Is it simply the music flowing out of your earphones? According to the law, the answer is a bit more complicated.
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Magazine
These Legs Were Made for Fashion
Vanessa Williams’s many ensembles in a music video for her new song, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” evoke her knack for portraying a diva with style.
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Arts
2 Players Sue Philharmonic, Saying They Were Wrongfully Suspended
Matthew Muckey and Liang Wang said they were sidelined without cause by the New York Philharmonic after a recent magazine article detailed allegations of misconduct against them.
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Arts
Kim Noltemy, Orchestra Veteran, Is Tapped to Lead L.A. Philharmonic
Noltemy, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s chief executive, will take the helm of the Philharmonic as it searches for its next music director.
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World
Duane Eddy, Whose Twang Changed Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 86
A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.
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World
India’s Master of Nostalgia Takes His Sweeping Vision to Netflix
In the small Bombay theater that showed big films, his father brought him — over and over again — to see the biggest of them all. With every one of his 18 viewings of “Mughal-e-Azam,” a hit 1960 musical about a forbidden romance between a prince and ...
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Arts
The Wartime Music of Debussy and Komitas, Still Resonating Today
Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and the Armenian genocide.