Critic’s Notebook
In a Hometown Send-Off, Aretha Franklin Belongs to Everyone
The gospel church, the pop public, the city of Detroit: The “Queen of Soul” was part of them all, but they didn’t define her singular gifts.
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CreditYael Malka for The New York Times Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again.
“And Nothing Hurt,” the first Spiritualized album in six years, is the result of the 53-year-old musician’s “obsessive” process of assembling sounds.
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CreditKevin Winter/Getty Images BTS, the First K-Pop Act to Hit No. 1 on Billboard, Does It Again
For the second time in six months, the boy band is atop the charts.
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The Playlist: Eminem’s Surprise ‘Venom,’ and 10 More New Songs
Hear tracks by LSD, Big Red Machine, Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers and others.
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Credit Remembering a Diva: The Week in Classical Music
Excellent productions of “Rigoletto” and “Evita” were among the highlights.
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Credit The Man Who Gives Form to the Sprawling Salzburg Festival
Markus Hinterhäuser, who took over the festival last summer, is already making his mark with daring stagings and a focus on late-20th-century music.
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Credit An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More
The tangent piano, a rarity from the late-18th century, is the star of Alexei Lubimov’s recording of works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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Credit Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out
Chamber music conventions dictate that on the rare occasion that a viola gets the melody, it’s facing the wrong way.
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Credit 2 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
