
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
ArtsBeat: A Fashionable, if Safe, Red Carpet at the Grammy Awards
CBS warned music stars not to show too much flesh, and many of those who attended the show appeared to take the message to heart.


Critic's Notebook: The Grammys: Still Measuring the Present by the Past
The structure of the award-giving, in which representatives of yesteryear weigh in on the acts of today, precludes the Grammys from capturing the shape, scale and range of modern music.


The 2013 Grammy Awards
Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” won record of the year, while Fun. won best new artist and Kelly Clarkson won best pop vocal album for “Stronger.”


Grammy Awards Celebrate Blush of Youth
In a year that seemed to tilt toward youth, the blues duo the Black Keys and the British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons took home top honors.


Full List of Grammy Winners
All the winners from the 2013 Grammy Awards.

Music Review: New York Festival of Song at Baryshnikov Arts Center
The Pulitzer-winning composer Kevin Puts (“Silent Night”) led the most recent edition of NYFOS Next, presented by the New York Festival of Song.


Music Review: Daniil Trifonov at Carnegie Hall
The young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov made his Carnegie Hall debut on Tuesday evening, playing a program of Scriabin, Liszt and Chopin.


ArtsBeat: What to Expect at Tonight’s Grammy Awards
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday starting at 8 p.m. Join us here for live blogging from Dave Itzkoff and Jon Caramanica.


Music Review: Wu Man and the Knights at Asia Society
Music Review: Stephanie Blythe Sings Kate Smith Song at Allen Room
In a concert at Lincoln Center the mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe reprised her American Songbook show of standards made popular by Kate Smith.


Music Review: Venice Baroque Orchestra Plays Vivaldi and Friends at Zankel
Venice Baroque Orchestra coaxed unusual sounds from instruments like the soprano recorder and bassoon at Zankel Hall.


Music Review: Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall
The composer Sarah Kirkland Snider shared a bill with the vocalist Shara Worden, the indie-pop singer D M Stith, Clogs and Orchestra for the Next Century at Merkin Concert Hall.


Music Review: Bobby Avey at Symphony Space
The pianist Bobby Avey led a jazz quintet through “Authority Melts From Me,” an hourlong suite drawing on Haitian voodoo drumming traditions, at Symphony Space.


James DePreist, Pioneering Conductor, Dies at 76
Mr. DePreist, one of the few black conductors to achieve international renown, refused to let disability derail his career.


A Word With: Bryan Ferry: Bryan Ferry on ‘The Jazz Age’
Bryan Ferry discusses “The Jazz Age,” which recasts some of his best-known songs from Roxy Music and his solo career as instrumentals in the style of the 1920s.


New Music: Albums by Pusha T and Ben Goldberg
A new mixtape from Pusha T features hard-nosed tales of the drug-dealer life, and the clarinetist Ben Goldberg releases two albums.


Music Review: Sofia Gubaidulina in Composer Portraits at the Miller Theater
The International Contemporary Ensemble played several Sofia Gubaidulina works as part of the Composer Portraits series at the Miller Theater on Saturday.


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