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Steven Stucky provided an urgent, sometimes dizzying and continually surprising piece in“Rhapsodies for Orchestra,”performed on Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall.
James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera and Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro, said Friday that his recent brush with cancer brought a glimpse of mortality that will inevitably color his work as a musician.
New York City Ballet—the first dance company invited to appear at the Bastille Opera House, home of the Paris Opera Ballet—has been playing to sold-out houses and earning glowing reviews.
From The Times’s John Darnton, a murder mystery that unfolds in the newsroom of a thinly disguised family-run broadsheet headquartered near Times Square.
Kate Hudson loosens her wholesome screen image a notch in her latest star vehicle, a racy comedy, which aims to be tasteless (it often is) and romantic (it mostly isn’t).
Opeth, a Swedish band that blends death metal with progressive folk-rock, played the Nokia Theater on Thursday.
“The Image,”based on a little-known story by Samuel Beckett, was performed at Le Skyroom Thursday as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line festival.
The Cassatt Quartet is celebrating Joan Tower’s 70th birthday with three concerts at Symphony Space, each including a work by Ms. Tower book-ended by two others.
Mr. Kagel was an avant-garde composer whose often absurdist works blurred the boundaries of music, theater and film.
Mr. Crumley’s breathtakingly violent books swept the hard-boiled detective from the Raymond Chandler era into an amoral, dissolute, apocalyptic post-Vietnam universe.
Mr. Sudhalter won wide respect as a trumpet player and jazz historian, and he ignited controversy for a book arguing that white as well as black musicians shaped jazz.
Executives publicly congratulated Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Stacey Snider on having announced the completion of their deal to leave the studio and form a new entertainment company.
The Unite for Strength group won 6 of the 11 open seats on the guild’s board, but had no immediate impact on the long-stalled contract negotiations with the major Hollywood studios.
Europe won the second Buffett Cup in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday in convincing style, by 205.5 points to 172.5.
The rap star has founded a new record label with Stargate, a team of two Norwegian songwriters and producers in New York who have scored big hits with Beyoncé, Rihanna and others.
On Friday, Oprah Winfrey announced her latest book club pick:“The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,”the debut novel by David Wroblewski.
Arthur Kent has settled a lawsuit against Universal Studios over the movie“Charlie Wilson’s War,”The Associated Press reported.
A single sheet of music discovered in the archives at the Médiathèque library in Nantes in western France is a previously unknown piece by Mozart, the BBC reported.
On a Thursday of mostly network television repeats,“CSI”and“Flashpoint”lifted CBS to No. 1 in the night’s ratings.
The York Theater Company has announced that its current production of the musical comedy“Enter Laughing”will be extended through Oct. 26 at the Theater at St. Peter’s.