Music

As operatic theater this staging of Janacek's song cycle by Ivo van Hove falls short. As an opportunity to hear great music performed with dedication and finesse by fine singers, I'll take it.

Clavvs and HÆLOS helped bookend a tiring Thursday lineup at South by Southwest 2019 in Austin Texas.

The first freestanding work for orchestra by film composer Danny Elfman has been recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with violinist Sandy Cameron.

Whoops and hollers from a student-heavy audience at Juilliard greeted the head of the school's viola department at his concert featuring music by Mozart, Hummel, and John Harbison.

Brightly inventive in the service of a dim mood, the songs on Beat Circus' 'These Wicked Things' smell of existential desperation. It's one of the cooler albums to cross my transom this year.

Das Body and Sweet Crude performed some addicting uptempo dance songs to Wednesday's SXSW schedule in Austin, Texas.

The noise and ache that stream through these songs recall the blues, and support literate and often poetic lyrics.

Gurr and Priests were among the bands performing on Tuesday, March 12 during South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX.

Moving Panoramas and SOAK were among the first performers at SXSW 2019 in Austin, Texas on March 10-11.

Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and pianist Wu Qian gave sumptuous performances of music by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Grieg at Columbia University's Italian Academy.