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A few months ago, asked to name my musical guilty pleasures on a New York radio show, I cited a track by the Comedian Harmonists, the phenomenally successful 1930s-era German vocal sextet. I'm no longer so sure this counts as a guilty pleasure. Like so...(more)
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Tonight, Ivn Fischer officially begins his two-year stint as principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra with a performance of Mahler's sprawling, epic Third Symphony. By rights, expectations should be running high. One of the highlights of the musical year to date was Fischer's Mahler...(more)
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Could it be that songs written more than 40 years ago are as good or better at addressing these scary times than what is written today?
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T. I. held on to the No. 1 slot in a week in which the album sales chart included Top 10 debuts from Bob Dylan and an album that has been disavowed by the artist who recorded it.
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On Monday night the Metropolitan Opera presented its own staging of “Doctor Atomic” by the British film director Penny Woolcock, in her Met debut.
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TELL TALE SIGNS Bob Dylan "Well the sun went down on me a long time ago," Bob Dylan sings on "Red River Shore," one of the many unearthed gems on "Tell Tale Signs," the eighth volume of his superlative "Bootleg Series." When the song was...(more)
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Argentine composer and producer Gustavo Santaolalla is a boundary-leaping kind of guy in just about every way you could (and some you couldn't) imagine. But taking his global tango group Bajofondo to South Korea and Japan is a cultural stretch even for this groundbreaking Latin rock...(more)
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When soft-pop crooners need to stoke their tunes with a little pathos, the perennial solution seems as universal as it is misguided: Turn up the soul! There's no songbook that a little histrionic humph can't rescue, right? Wrong, wrong, wrong. And such are the perils...(more)
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Pianist Andras Schiff concluded his recital Friday at Strathmore with an unusually generous encore: the entirety of Bach's "Italian" Concerto. It was the kind of rigorous, clear-eyed, dazzlingly played reading that made this 54-year-old pianist famous as a Bach specialist earlier in his career. The...(more)
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Ra Ra Riot is the kind of band you can bring home to meet the parents. And even if those parents think indie rock is music that comes from Indiana, they'd probably still enjoy the Syracuse, N.Y., sextet's songs. They'd probably even cook the band...(more)
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The Web site absolutepunk.net reported an unlikely collaboration on Saturday: Elvis Costello is singing on the new album by the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy.
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Gradually, and without getting much media attention, AC/DC has become the most popular currently active rock band in the country, to judge by albums sold.
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