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Author: BY ANTHONY TOMMASINI - Publish Date: December 14, 2021 at 12:45AM Tenet Vocal Artists marked the 450th anniversary of the German Baroque composer Michael Praetorius’s birth, and the 400th of his death.

Author: BY BEN SISARIO - Publish Date: December 13, 2021 at 11:53PM The singer’s first album in six years became the first release to reach that milestone since Taylor Swift’s “Evermore” a year ago. But in 2015, Adele’s “25” sold 3.4 million its first week.

Author: BY ZACHARY WOOLFE - Publish Date: December 10, 2021 at 11:43PM “Voices of the Immaculate,” a new cantata by Kati Agocs performed on Thursday by Lucy Dhegrae, was entirely, word for word, lucid.

Author: BY JOHN MCWHORTER - Publish Date: December 1, 2021 at 02:55AM “A Little Night Music” was all it took.

Author: BY ANTHONY TOMMASINI - Publish Date: November 29, 2021 at 03:15AM Our chief classical music critic remembers playing and teaching the unforgettable scores of “Sweeney Todd,” “Sunday in the Park With George” and other shows.

Author: BY ELISABETH VINCENTELLI - Publish Date: November 29, 2021 at 02:27AM The country singer and musical-theater fan was grateful to play the intense title role in “Waitress” not long after her Broadway-themed album came out.

Author: BY ERIC GRODE - Publish Date: November 29, 2021 at 01:45AM The lyricist and composer, who died on Friday, wrote dozens of piercing tunes for Broadway. Here is a selection of them, as lean as a Sondheim couplet.

Author: BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - Publish Date: November 28, 2021 at 01:20AM Marianne Elliott, director of the Broadway revival of “Company,” and the actress Patti LuPone spoke onstage about the legacy and death of Stephen Sondheim, one of Broadway history’s songwriting titans.

Author: BY ALEX MARSHALL - Publish Date: November 26, 2021 at 11:13PM Strict controls on playhouses and music venues are returning as the continent deals with a new coronavirus wave.

Author: BY JULIA JACOBS - Publish Date: November 24, 2021 at 02:57AM The jazz pianist and bandleader on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” received the most nominations for the 2022 awards. Music “connects us to the sacred, the divine,” he said.

Author: BY LEIGH-ANN JACKSON - Publish Date: November 18, 2021 at 12:00AM Yoko Kanno has become one of Japan’s foremost composers since she created the eclectic score for the anime series “Cowboy Bebop.” She returned for Netflix’s live-action version.

Author: BY JOHN WILLIAMS - Publish Date: November 9, 2021 at 12:00AM Josh Ritter talks about how his novel “The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All” changed as he wrote it and the importance of creative work that doesn’t eat up its creator.

Author: BY GIULIA HEYWARD - Publish Date: November 8, 2021 at 01:45AM The music festival at Astroworld in Houston left eight people dead. Here is what is known about them so far.

Author: BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN - Publish Date: October 27, 2021 at 01:15AM As a child, she learned she could play her instrument almost anywhere. As an adult, her bittersweet music depends on doing exactly that.

Author: BY JOSHUA BARONE - Publish Date: October 27, 2021 at 12:01AM Lypsinka, the alter ego of John Epperson, a longtime pianist for Ballet Theater, will perform as part of the company’s inaugural Pride Nights.

Author: BY JULIA JACOBS AND ROBERT CHIARITO - Publish Date: October 21, 2021 at 12:38AM The R&B star was convicted last month in Brooklyn of sex trafficking and racketeering charges after decades of sexual abuse allegations.

Author: BY ZACHARY WOOLFE - Publish Date: October 21, 2021 at 12:32AM The organization opened its season with a program encapsulating a persistently conservative vision of the repertory.

Author: BY ANTHONY TOMMASINI - Publish Date: October 18, 2021 at 02:57AM An ensemble of 18 string players who are Black and Latino set a reflective and spirited tone on Friday, with solos by the charismatic bass-baritone Davóne Tines.

Author: BY JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ - Publish Date: October 10, 2021 at 05:24AM The man, in his late 30s, was crushed during a scene change as the opera “Sadko” was performed before an audience, the theater said.

Author: BY JOHN MCWHORTER - Publish Date: October 9, 2021 at 02:00AM There has always been cultural melding between white and Black America.