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The Sonic Signatures of Salvatore Sciarrino and Kaija Saariaho
The music of these painterly modern composers is as distinct as Schubert’s or Debussy’s.
June 12, 2023
- Pop Music
The Startling Intimacy of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour
Even addressing a stadium of seventy thousand people, the singer seems to be speaking directly to you, confessing something urgent.
June 12, 2023
- Pop Music
Christine and the Queens’ Restless Self-Inventions
“Paranoïa, Angels, True Love” is the latest album from an artist unafraid to become someone new.
May 29, 2023
- Musical Events
Gustavo Dudamel’s Mahler Misfire
At the New York Philharmonic, the celebrity conductor gave a curiously inert reading of the Ninth Symphony.
May 29, 2023
- Postscript
The Untouchable Tina Turner
Some people perform music; some people become music.
May 25, 2023
- Our Columnists
Battle Rap’s Unwoke Representation Politics
Even if the point of battle rap is trading increasingly offensive insults, the whole thing functions on a certain system of trust.
May 23, 2023
- Musical Events
Yo-Yo Ma Goes Underground with the Louisville Orchestra
Teddy Abrams, the ensemble’s music director, has created a work about Mammoth Cave—and staged the piece inside its reverberating walls.
May 8, 2023
- The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jane Mayer on Justice Clarence Thomas
The staff writer discusses the latest ethical questions about the judge. Plus, the bipartisan effort to rein in Presidential military power; and the music writer Hanif Abdurraqib.
April 21, 2023
- Musical Events
The Doleful Minimalism of Max Richter
The composer is everywhere on film and television soundtracks, promising that we will dissolve in mist before the apocalypse arrives.
April 10, 2023
- Pop Music
The Otherworldly Compositions of an Ethiopian Nun
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, who died recently, wrote pieces that were elegiac, but suffused with a sense of survival: we are broken, we are wounded, we carry on.
April 7, 2023
- Listening Booth
Boygenius’s “Record” of Friendship and Mutual Obsession
The first full-length album from Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus evinces a preëmptive nostalgia for the honeymoon phase of creative collaboration.
April 1, 2023
- Listening Booth
Lana Del Rey’s New Album Searches for Transcendence
On “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd,” the artist asks lofty questions with an earnestness that’s sometimes sublime and sometimes a bit dippy.
March 28, 2023
- Listening Booth
The Expansive Sounds of an Unsung Album Called “Black Music”
Marc Anthony Thompson, with the musical collective Chocolate Genius, produced some of the great confessional songs of the nineties. But critics seemed eager to define the project by what it wasn’t.
March 22, 2023
- Daily Comment
Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy
A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”
March 16, 2023
- Pop Music
Central Cee, Britain’s Hip-Hop Ambassador
The musician takes Americans on a tour of British rap.
March 13, 2023
