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Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos. View here. 12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents Ex Cathedra: Baroque Passion. Jeffrey Skidmore and his choir Ex Cathedra present a...

Program #318 (March 14 at 8:00 p.m.) Music of Bill Evans featuring performances by Howard Alden Trio, Richie Beirach Trio, Chick Corea, Mitchel Forman and Fred Hersch. Borrowing heavily from the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, pianist Bill Evans brought an introverted, relaxed, and lyrical classical sensibility into jazz. Along with his keen technical ability and nuanced sense of harmony, Evans worked to democratize the role of the bassist and drummer in his succession of piano trios, encouraging greater contrapuntal interplay. After gaining widespread attention as a member of Miles Davis...

Joe Chambers – Samba de Maracatu (Blue Note): “On Samba de Maracatu, Chambers asserts himself more as a mallet player, particularly on the vibraphone.  Throughout the album, he uses the vibraphone as the lead melodic and improvisational voice that often converses with Merritt’s piano accompaniments and solos. While Samba de Maracatu isn’t a Brazilian jazz album in this strictest sense, Chambers utilizes various rhythms and indigenous Brazilian percussion instruments on several pieces, including the title track, which references the syncretic Afro-Brazil rhythms that were originated ...

February 17, 2021 A sign reads, “Studio Closed Due To Covid” at the Trap Music Museum in Atlanta, Ga., 2020. (Photo by Paras Griffin / Getty Images) Creativity blooms in solitude, or so we believe in our weakness for the trope of the artist as a singular figure tapping the magic well of inspiration to make works of art. James Joyce, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, said he needed only three things to be equipped to write: silence, exile, and cunning—the first, an attribute of solitude; the second, a means to achieve it; and the third, a tool for its exploitation.

9 love-song-loving musicians on the ones they wish they’d written By James Sullivan Globe correspondent,Updated February 5, 2021, 6:00 a.m. Email to a Friend James Taylor's "Something in the Way She Moves" is a favorite of "Hadestown" composer Anaïs Mitchell.Getty Images for iHeartRadio “Chad” has just returned to his native Hawaii from a stint in the Army. Having been stationed in Europe, he’s brought back a gift for his girlfriend and her grandmother. It’s a music box that plays the 18th-century French ballad “Plaisir d’amour.” It’s a love son...