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Tradition (or, as Arturo Toscanini would have it, bad habit) decrees that critics wrap up each year with a list of best performances. And wh...

Billy Taylor, the jazz pianist, bandleader and educator who was instrumental in raising the stature of this American art form to parity with...

The New York Times' Allan Kozinn sounds out performers who specialize in new music, and hears that many or most contemporary works aren...

Writing for The Huffington Post, Michael Kaiser, president of Washington's Kennedy Center and one of the leading voices cautioning again...

The zebra-striped pedestrian crossing outside the Abbey Road studios in the St. John's Wood district of London, most widely known from t...

Eight of the 49 full-time musicians of the Columbus (OH) Symphony, including the concertmaster, are going on leave after the first of the ye...