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Music World Braces for a Low-Wattage Grammy Night

As the Writers Guild maintained on Monday that it was unlikely to grant a request from Grammy producers for an interim agreement, talent managers and label executives worried over prospects of a gala drained of major stars.

For Schubert, a Sad Tale Was the Best for Winter

The latest in this long line of winter journeyers is a British tenor, Mark Padmore, who sang Schubert’s song cycle at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday night with the pianist Ethan Iverson.

A Long Way From Radiohead (or Maybe Not So Long)

Jonny Greenwood’s 20-minute work was by far the most viscerally exciting and intellectually engaging of the three at the Wordless Music series concert on Wednesday.

Messenger From Late ’50s, Scatting and Swooning Away

On Wednesday the jazz singer Mark Murphy reminisced about the San Remo bar, the artist hangout in Greenwich Village that he used to frequent 50 years ago.

A Brutal Cossack Hero Strides Into Brooklyn

Perhaps nervousness accounted for some of the shakiness of the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater of Perm's performance on Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Locating Love Between Silly and Serious

'A Modern Person’s Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up” offered a quirky survey that dealt with the awkwardness, pain, lust and perversity of interpersonal affairs.

One Plus One Plus One Equals Infinite Options

Wednesday at the Jazz Gallery, three musicians who have played as a trio only a few times before - the drummer Jeff Ballard, the guitarist Lionel Loueke and the alto saxophonist Miguel ZenÃ³n - played as if they were meant to be together.

A Joyful Noise: Midday Music

Over two weeks of daytime concerts, I was entertained in some of the most beautiful houses of worship in New York by world-class professional musicians.