NY Times Music News

Mr. Bass was the longtime music director and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, a New York group whose performances and recordings have earned it international recognition.

Young Jeezy’s new album, “The Recession,” may not be as consistently thrilling as his 2005 debut, but it’s more consistently interesting.

Alison Hinds is a smiling, trumpeting voice of female empowerment in soca, the modernized calypso music of carnival in Trinidad, Barbados and, this weekend, New York.

The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has dropped plans to compose a work for the Metropolitan Opera in a dispute over the language of the libretto.

Mr. Jackson was the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by the Spinners.

On Monday night Kurt Wagner played at the Living Room, employing ritual, folk song, rhythm and blues, non sequitur and his own low, quiet voice.

Kayhan Kalhor, a virtuoso of the kamancheh — an upright four-stringed Persian fiddle — has recorded an album with the young string quartet Brooklyn Rider.

Gerard Mortier, of the New York City Opera, and Nike Wagner, a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, are joining forces to seek control of the Bayreuth Festival.

Mahmoud Ahmed, Getatchew Mekurya, Extra Golden, the Ex and others provided a rapturous cultural exchange at Damrosch Park on Wednesday.

It was interesting to see Osmo Vanska in his roles as conductor and clarinet player this week at the Mostly Mozart Festival.

The Zukofsky Quartet seems intent on looking past the favorites of the quartet repertory and exploring works that may not yet have had a fair hearing.

Mr. Young was a singer best known as the English-language half of the popular multilingual duo Sandler & Young.

The venerable Emerson String Quartet is accustomed to performing in glittering concert halls. But it seemed entirely comfortable at Joe’s Pub.

Through much of her show, Melody Gardot weighed vulnerability against seductiveness, without really taking sides.

The Roots of American Music Festival, held last weekend in Damrosch Park, adopted a flexible definition of roots music in an effort to build bridges and audiences.

Terrence Howard turns to the drama of his music, where he can express himself freely without the strictures of a director or writer.

The Unidos Tour featured, among others, the wildly popular tejano-norteño group Intocable and the genre-tweaking duranguense group Los Horóscopos de Durango.

Opera Omnia staged an updated version of Monteverdi’s “Coronation of Poppea,” the company’s inaugural offering, in the intimate venue Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday.

Madonna kicked off her Sticky & Sweet Tour at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

Loss and transformation were the themes of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, and the final program offered some of both.