Music

The drummer and pianist, who died on Sunday at 83, was a master of many styles and an ever-evolving innovator.

By Ken Micallef

Endowed with spectacular range, he played with Miles Davis, led New Directions and Special Edition, and spent decades with Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio.

By Hank Shteamer

Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.

By Alex Traub

The star never imagined he’d be performing as the Boss in front of the Boss. But the head-spinning nature of the role has paid off.

By Melena Ryzik and Daniel Weiss

The choreographer Mandy Moore feels at home everywhere. She even sees herself as a kind of dance therapist. “Teach them the love first and the steps later.”

By Margaret Fuhrer

The “Strut” singer had creative relationships with Prince and Nile Rodgers and experimented in different genres. A pair of new boxed sets chronicle her peak years.

By Bob Mehr

The angst of nu metal is being discovered by Gen Z, but with digital eyes always looming, the ephemeral catharsis of collectively going mad is a thing of the past.

By Maya Salam

The Estonian Festival Orchestra made its North American debut at Carnegie Hall, offering a broad, excellently played survey of Pärt’s music.

By Joshua Barone

The chart-topping British singer’s music defies genres, because she’s more interested in feelings than styles.

By Eleanor Stanford

The director Scott Cooper narrates a scene in which Bruce Springsteen (White) records the song “My Father’s House.”

By Mekado Murphy

The new biopic gets a lot right about the Boss and the making of “Nebraska.” But there are elements that were made up for the film.

By Ben Sisario

This firebrand guitarist pulled songs from his lesser-known catalog for “Revolution(s),” about a family of activists, now playing in Chicago.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Jeremy Allen White plays the singer-songwriter in an affecting drama about the making of his 1982 album “Nebraska” when he slipped into a terrible darkness.

By Manohla Dargis

He was a producer and one half of the pioneering English synth-pop duo.

By Aimee Ortiz

The new directive came after President Trump made himself chairman of the Kennedy Center, the home of the orchestra.

By Adam Nagourney

The tentative agreement, which still requires ratification by union members, comes five days after a similar agreement with actors and stage managers.

By Michael Paulson

After the release of her latest album, an aquarium in California and a museum in Germany suddenly were thrust into the center of Taylor Swift’s fandom. Just how big is Swift’s cultural reach?

By Sopan Deb

The singer and songwriter on her reign as one of music’s most idiosyncratic and spiritual figures and where her creative impulses are headed next.

By Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli and Jason Nocito

With a tuft of hair on either side of her shaved head and long tendrils of eyeliner swiped across her lids, she helped define a scene.

By Ash Wu

The remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who died before her 15th birthday, were found in the artist’s vehicle after it was towed to an impound lot, officials said.

By Matt Stevens

The pop star had Abbode, a parlor in Manhattan, customize a shirt for her “Saturday Night Live” appearance. The founder’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing.

By Yola Mzizi

In Warsaw, a 27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts beat out 180 competitors to win what some call the Olympics of the piano world.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

On her Live From the Swamp Tour, the breakout rapper demonstrates she has the wordplay, wit and work ethic to take her career to the next level.

By Lindsay Zoladz

In honor of a new film about the (real) Bruce Springsteen, revisit tracks from Spinal Tap, Sex Bob-Omb, Stillwater and more.

By Lindsay Zoladz

Luciano Berio, who would have turned 100 this year, anticipated an overwhelming media culture in his classic “Sinfonia.”

By Jeffrey Arlo Brown

A new 37-track boxed set released alongside a biopic tracking the making of his 1982 album underscores how sometimes a musician’s first recording is the right one.

By Jon Pareles

An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe when being considered for a wide variety of opera roles.

By Adam Nossiter

The mogul’s defense team notified the appellate court that it will challenge the jury’s verdict on prostitution-related charges and the four-year prison term he received.

By Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs

On Popcast, a conversation about the casual virtuosity of D’Angelo’s too-brief career with a pair of journalists who each interviewed him twice.

In the days following a cease-fire in Gaza, the orchestra returned to New York under circumstances that were more tense than usual.

By Joshua Barone

The hip-hop choreographer brings irrepressible enthusiasm to her work for Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé and Dua Lipa.

By Margaret Fuhrer and Michelle Groskopf

There was a flourish of purple at the State Theater for the debut of a new musical adaptation of the performer’s 1984 movie in his hometown in Minnesota.

By Jeff Ernst

As a founding member of the band, he helped it achieve mainstream success.

By Talya Minsberg

The lead guitarist of Kiss could see that musicianship alone wouldn’t take him to the top.

By Jim Windolf

The International Chopin Piano Competition is entering its final round, with performances that attract millions of viewers.

By Joshua Barone

Feelings of persecution have long driven Swift’s most powerful songwriting. But even as fans and critics dinged her latest album, her numbers continue to explode.

By Shaad D’Souza

After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.

By Carlotta Gall and Ruhullah Khapalwak

After a whirlwind six years of working with icons and curating her own festival, the singer and songwriter was alone with her work, in search of a fresh spark.

By Melena Ryzik and Chantal Anderson

The Kiss guitarist, who died on Thursday at 74, scored his only Top 20 solo hit with a cover that’s endured for decades.

By Brian Raftery

At a moment when other pop stars are flirting with dark spectacle, Gaga’s “Mayhem” tour shows that she has perfected it.

By Wesley Morris

Nadine Sierra started at the Metropolitan Opera with promise. Watch as she turns into a full-fledged star.

By Joshua Barone

A consummate showman, he was known for playing guitars rigged with pyrotechnic effects and for his distinctive stage persona.

By Gavin Edwards

An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

Carnegie Hall was a site of protest on Wednesday, one of many demonstrations over the last two years targeting cultural events, particularly those with Israeli artists.

By Adam Nagourney

Performing in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” at the Metropolitan Opera, Oh has already perfected the art of waving a fan with sass.

By Joshua Barone and Thea Traff

Pop culture is saturated with franchises, and Swift is the master of creating them. But her marketing is beginning to overtake the music.

By Mitch Therieau

Swim in azure waters, visit an 18th-century glassblowing factory and explore the picturesque towns of this Balearic island.

By Zachary Small and Emilio Parra Doiztua

For an entire year, supporters in Argentina have arranged flowers, photos and letters at a cemetery and the hotel where he died.

By Lucía Cholakian Herrera

On her new album, “The BPM,” the songwriter, fiddler and rapper pumps up the beat and crafts a timely narrative about humans and machines.

By Jon Pareles

The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.

By Wesley Morris

The singer, songwriter and producer’s 2000 album was the result of years in the studio listening to inspiring music, jamming and rediscovering his artistic purpose.

By Hank Shteamer

The video for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” brought him new levels of fame, but not always the kind of attention he sought.

By Jonathan Abrams

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.

By Jon Pareles

Listen to recent releases from Geese, Doja Cat, Neko Case and more.

By Lindsay Zoladz

It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are commemorating those events.

By John Hanc

After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.

By Ben Sisario

Pierre Monteux, who led the scandalous premiere of “The Rite of Spring,” went on to a career of remarkable peace and selflessness.

By David Allen

The pop star’s ex-husband Kevin Federline had said in a new book that since her conservatorship ended, “It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK.”

By Matt Stevens and Julia Jacobs

The pop superstar sold four million copies of her latest album, topping a decade-old milestone by Adele. The tally included 1.3 million vinyl LPs.

By Ben Sisario

Mr. Watkins had been serving a 29-year sentence for child sex abuse offenses at the Wakefield Prison in northern England.

By Johnny Diaz and Claire Moses

At “House of Music,” a London exhibition of paintings by Peter Doig, songs he typically plays in his private studio help bring his work to life.

By Emily LaBarge

The producer has reached the top of the charts and won Grammys. As he embarks on the next phase of his career, he’s looking back on what he’s learned.

By Jonathan Abrams

A bedrock of the idiosyncratic British group Pentangle, he went on to play with a host of luminaries, including Roy Orbison, Eric Clapton and Kate Bush.

By Alex Williams

Cristian Macelaru has started his tenure as the music director of the storied Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

By Jeremy Reynolds

A self-taught composer and interpreter, she led an unconventional and itinerant life devoted to spreading Chilean folkloric music.

By María Sánchez Díez

In two programs with the New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen has constructed a moving exploration of musical legacy.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

He wrote some of the band’s signature songs, including “Ride My See-Saw” and “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band).”

By Alex Williams and Christine Hauser

The Metropolitan opera is reviving its season-opening production in February, building on the momentum of recent sold-out performances.

By Adam Nagourney

Our team of Swift experts debate her blockbuster new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” and take listener questions about its themes and controversies.

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

By Jennifer Schuessler and Erinn Springer

A Grammy-winning pianist, he was renowned for works that created “new ideas about line, harmony, rhythm, sound and musical architecture,” one admirer wrote.

By Richard Sandomir

The Canadian rapper sued for defamation and harassment, and accused the record company behind both artists of boosting his rival.

By Joe Coscarelli

Zaho de Sagazan has become a shooting star of contemporary French pop music by reimagining the chanson genre for a younger, more dance-oriented audience.

By Thomas Rogers

Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the highlights.

Known for both his openness and his mysteriousness, the rapper, producer — and now actor — keeps people guessing.

By Adam Bradley, Luis Alberto Rodriguez and Carlos Nazario

For T’s annual celebration of the people changing the culture, we profile three artists united in their dedication to taking risks.

By Hanya Yanagihara

In a video post on social media, the country music superstar, who is 79, played down the recent health challenges that prompted her to delay her Las Vegas residency.

By Neil Vigdor

After the homeland security secretary called the lyrics “disrespectful,” Bryan, a country music star, said they had been “misconstrued.”

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

The California guitarist’s last LP, “Revealer,” was named best folk album in 2023. But after a divorce at 27, she returns with a defiant edge.

By Grayson Haver Currin

Twenty-two people in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences were awarded the fellowship, which comes with an $800,000 stipend.

By Michaela Towfighi

Caterina Barbieri, 35, plays gigs on banks of synthesizers. That makes her a surprising choice to lead the cerebral Venice Music Biennale.

By Chiara Rimella

In its first five days of release, Swift’s new album broke a record set by Adele’s “25” a decade ago. Swift’s equivalent sales include 1.2 million on vinyl.

By Ben Sisario

The Broadway League and unions representing actors, stage managers and musicians are trying to negotiate new contracts, but workers are increasingly frustrated.

By Michael Paulson

The composer, who turns 90 this fall, has expanded the spectrum of sounds that instruments produce and that audiences can perceive.

By Jeffrey Arlo Brown

Inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Showgirl” single, listen to a playlist of songs that use the tragic “Hamlet” heroine as inspiration.

By Lindsay Zoladz

Rolando Villazón’s lucid and thrillingly sung production of Bellini’s opera stars a resplendent Nadine Sierra.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later.

By Joshua Barone

“Last Rites,” a book detailing the final 15 years of the metal luminary’s life, is arriving at the same time as “No Escape From Now,” a documentary about a challenging period.

By Hank Shteamer

It’s painful to watch Ozzy Osbourne struggle in this documentary, but his efforts to make one final onstage appearance are awe-inspiring.

By Glenn Kenny

A rhythm guitarist and bassist, he was a “rock” for a band whose fiery lead players, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, had no shortage of ego.

By Alex Williams

“The Life of a Showgirl” dominated streaming, conversation and movie theaters this weekend. But reaction to the album — especially its lyrics — was mixed.

By The New York Times

Ivo van Hove’s stark production of Mozart’s classic has returned to the Metropolitan Opera with a uniformly excellent cast.

By Joshua Barone

The Nashville singer and songwriter has written songs for Maren Morris and toured with Harry Styles. Her new album, “Fatal Optimist,” is bravely bare.

By Marissa R. Moss

And the show’s host, Bad Bunny, is just what the president and his ICE posse will be looking for at the Super Bowl.

By Dave Itzkoff

The Tom Petty hit has a rich cinematic legacy that Paul Thomas Anderson draws on for the closing moments of his tale of radical revolutionaries.

By Esther Zuckerman

After the homeland security secretary’s comments, Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper who will headline the Super Bowl halftime show, responded on “Saturday Night Live.”

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

Taylor Swift reimagines the fate of the tragic “Hamlet” heroine on her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” But did she really need saving?

By Lindsay Zoladz

For a rapid-response episode of Popcast, we journeyed track-by-track through the pop star’s new album, assessing the highs, lows and hot gossip.

Many who have tracked the music mogul’s career think his reputation has been irreparably damaged by testimony of abusive behavior as a boss and boyfriend.

By Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs

The pop star’s new album arrived with a limited-run film in which she debuts a video for “The Fate of Ophelia” and chats about the LP’s songs.

By Esther Zuckerman