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Sir Paul McCartney’s latest album, McCartney III, released in December 2020 and gets a rather extensive makeover on a new companion collection, McCartney III Imagined. Upon completing his last album, McCartney asked some adventurous musicians he admired, like Damon Albarn and St. Vincent, to create fresh reinterpretations of his new songs. Every artist approached to take part in this project was instructed to take one song and have their way with it. There were no restrictions placed on the...

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html Deana Lawson at her studio in New York City.Credit...Lyle Ashton Harris for The New York Times Sections The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history. Deana Lawson at her studio in New York City.Credit...Lyle Ashton Harris for...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...

Elegy: Snow in June. View here. Friday, April 30 12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s Reverie, and Kreisler’s 1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneide...

5 Things to Do This Weekend Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually. April 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Dance Image The Sarasota Ballet performing Frederick Ashton’s “Valses Nobles et Sentimentales.”Credit...Frank Atura It was one of the happy surprises of dance in the 2010s: how the Sarasota Ballet, a scrappy troupe on the Gulf Coast of Florida, became a critical darling and one of the world’s prime preservers of the work of the great British ...

Last December, Paul McCartney gave fans an early Christmas present in the form of McCartney III, an event that—short of a holographic Beatles reunion tour or an official release of Carnival of Light—fulfilled the ultimate fantasy of many long-time Maccaphiles. But the excitement was as much about him embracing old ways as making new music: The album revisited the mad-scientist methodology of die-hard fan favorites McCartney (1970) and McCartney II (1980), DIY efforts that deconstr...

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39, and Beethoven’s Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3. Register and view here until April 18. 8 pm ET: Tippet Rise Art Center presents Spring Festival. For the first day of Tippet Rise’s Spring Festival, two films have been captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the Amphion String Quartet—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’s Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippe...

Solange performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2014 (Flickr/Neon Tommy) The first time Stephanie Phillips, a London-based music journalist and the frontwoman of the punk trio Big Joanie, saw music polyhistor Solange Knowles, it was nearly baptismal. It was July 2017, and Phillips and her friends were at the Lovebox Festival in London. "Up there in the air, looking down from above on the sea of festival-goers, I could suddenly see my place in this fandom,...

Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days. 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours. 8 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Operas upcoming season featuring special gues...