Critic’s Notebook: FORM Arcosanti, a Music Festival That Thinks Small
Total immersion and communality were the norm at this free festival at a unique desert setting in Arizona, with Skrillex and Four Tet headlining.
Barbra Streisand Announces Summer Tour, Brooklyn Included
Ms. Streisand’s North American tour begins Aug. 2, to be followed by the release of a new album, “Encores: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.”
Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms
The violinist Miranda Cuckson and the pianist Blair McMillen played Bartok and Schnittke — and Steven Stucky and Elliott Carter — at Le Poisson Rouge.
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Awards Summer Residencies
This year’s crop of musical writers includes Brian Crawley and Adam Gwon.
Review: In the Sanctuary of ‘The Spiritual Side of Coltrane’
The saxophonist Joe Lovano assembled a kind of dream team for a concert that is part of a 90th-birthday tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
Review: Ute Lemper Seeks Truth and Justice in a Collaboration With Paulo Coelho
At Symphony Space on Friday, the chanteuse performed most of “The 9 Secrets,” a song cycle based on Mr. Coelho’s novel “Manuscript Found in Accra.”
New Albums: Blackball’s Stylish Distortion, Lesley Flanigan’s Choral Hypnosis
Also out this week: music from the bassist Andy González and the electronic composer Robert Curgenven.
Jamala, Ukrainian Singer, Named Winner of 2016 Eurovision Contest
Jamala’s choice of song, a ballad that seemed to evoke Soviet abuses in World War II, spurred challenges that cited a ban on political subject matter.
Opinion: The Trombone Comes Home
The horn, my one musical link to my father, had gone to jazz heaven. Or so I thought.
Review: A Birthday of the Darmstadt Avant-Garde
A three-day festival in New York celebrated the fruits of a German summer music workshop that proved to be a wellspring of experimental compositions.
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