Will Play for Health Care (at Least at One Music Event)

By BEN SISARIO

Jennifer May for The New York Times

Richard Buckner earned dental care.

An expansion of the O+ Festival, in San Francisco this weekend, features the usual array of concerts — and the unusual form of payment: health care for the artists.

Music Review

A Seminar on Suspense, in Service of the Blues

By NATE CHINEN

The blues musician Gary Clark Jr. performed at the Apollo Theater with the guitarist Eric Zapata, the bassist Johnny Bradley and the drummer Johnny Radelat, and some guests.

Music Review

Blithely Crossing the Boundary Between Country and Hip-Hop

By JON CARAMANICA

The Nashville hitmakers Florida Georgia Line (Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley) filled a show at Best Buy Theater with hip-hop covers.

Music Review

Bated Breath, as a Baton Is Raised for a Specialty

By JAMES R. OESTREICH

After canceling a date there last March, the San Francisco Symphony gave a delayed performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall on Thursday.

November 15, 2013

New Grove Dictionary Broadens Scope on American Music

The new edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music is twice the size of the previous edition.

November 15, 2013

Conductor’s Prize Goes to Jeffrey Milarsky

Mr. Milarsky will be presented with the prize at a concert by the Juilliard Orchestra that he is conducting Friday night.

November 14, 2013

At Memorial for Lou Reed, Just Music

There were no speeches at a memorial for Lou Reed held at Lincoln Center.

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Music Review

Modern Love Child of a Renaissance Spirit

By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM

The Choir of Men and Boys at St. Thomas Church and the Fretwork ensemble presented a program of mostly Renaissance works on Tuesday, along with the premiere of Nico Muhly’s “My Days.”

Music Review

Hayley Williams onstage with Paramore on Wednesday.

An Orange-Haired Dynamo and Friends Grow Up

By JON PARELES

A somewhat-changed Paramore still followed Hayley Williams’ energetic lead with its new songs at Madison Square Garden.

Music Review

Love Child of a Renaissance Spirit

By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM

The Choir of Men and Boys at St. Thomas Church and the Fretwork ensemble presented a program of mostly Renaissance works.

Critic’s Notebook

Macklemore of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.

Power Doses of a Rapper’s Idiosyncratic Religion

By JON CARAMANICA

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis brought electric energy to their show at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, performing circa 1968.

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Tenor Saxophonist, Dies at 77

By NATE CHINEN

Mr. McIntyre was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and occasionally performed in face paint and tribal costume.

Music Review

Anna Caterina Antonacci at the Rose Theater.

A Madwoman Lets It Rip

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

The Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci presented the American premiere of “Era la Notte” at the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center.

Pooya Hosseini, who fought off a former bandmate who had already killed three men, speaking with the police after the shootings on Monday.

Survivor of Shooting Rampage Recalls Struggle With Killer

By J. DAVID GOODMAN and VIVIAN YEE

Pooya Hosseini, who lived in the Brooklyn home where three Iranian musicians were killed, told of chatting with Ali Akbar Mohammadi Rafie and wrestling over his gun.

Music Review

Deptford Goth The musician, whose name is Daniel Woolhouse, played at the Mercury Lounge.

Always an Air of Sorrow, Even in Songs of Love

By JON CARAMANICA

Daniel Woolhouse played his first show in the United States at the Mercury Lounge, playing his album “Life After Defo.”

Music Review

counter)induction From left, Miranda Cuckson, Ning Yu, Karen Ouzounian and Benjamin Fingland performing at the Tenri Cultural Institute.

An Ensemble, in Its 15th Season, Reimagines and Interprets

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

The new-music ensemble counter)induction opened its 15th season with a program titled “Correspondent.”

Music Review

St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig performing at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin on Tuesday as part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival.

The Traditional Chorus That Keeps Bach Young

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

The 800-year-old St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, Germany, performed at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan.

Music Review

My Bloody Valentine This Irish postpunk band’s guitarist and leader, Kevin Shields, performing on Tuesday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

Distortion and Reverberation as a Force of Nature

By JON PARELES

My Bloody Valentine ended its tour in New York on Tuesday with its leader, Kevin Shields, declaring that there would be no more shows “for a long time.”

Music Review

Joshua Bell The violinist at his Carnegie Hall recital on Tuesday, with Sam Haywood on piano.

Reading a Violinist From the Arm, Not Fingers

By ZACHARY WOOLFE

The violinist Joshua Bell ranged from Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” Sonata to Stravinsky at Carnegie Hall.

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Classical Playlist: Andras Schiff, Janine Jansen, Rebekah Heller and More

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Times critics share what they’ve been listening to lately.

Press Play

Noteworthy New Music

Exclusive: Albums by Eiko Ishibashi and Mick Turner

“Imitation of Life,” the first domestic release from Ms. Ishibashi, was produced by Jim O’Rourke. Mr. Turner, of the Dirty Three, has released a sprawling concept album called “Don’t Tell the Driver.”

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New York Times Popcast

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Popcast: Eminem and Lady Gaga Aim to Reclaim Their Relevance

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ben Ratliff and Jon Pareles discuss new albums by two veteran pop provocateurs.

ArtsBeat

Popcast: Sky Ferreira’s Time, Finally

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Jon Caramanica and Ben Ratliff discuss “Night Time, My Time,” the debut album by Sky Ferreira.

ArtsBeat

Popcast: Morrissey on Morrissey

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Jessica Winter of Slate and The Times’s Ben Ratliff discuss the new Morrissey memoir, “Autobiography.”

From Opinion

Opinionator | The Score

Confessions of a ‘Composeress’

By ANNIE GOSFIELD

I’ve never considered myself a “woman composer,” but I suspect that over the years being female has helped more than it’s hurt.

Opinionator | Measure for Measure

Stephen Foster, the Wildebeest and Me

By RENNIE SPARKS

Or how I began a song about animal swarms that ended up being a song about songs.

Multimedia

The Yellow Dogs, from left, Arash and Soroush Farazmand, killed on Monday, and Siavash Karampour and Koory Mirz.

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Iranian Musicians Shot Dead in Brooklyn

The Iranian indie band the Yellow Dogs fled Tehran so that they could live and play their music free of fear and repression. But in New York, two of the band's members met sudden, violent deaths.

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Jazz and Colors

Scenes from the music festival in Central Park.

Music Review: Finding a Groove, or a Few Dozen; Map Is Optional

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After the Curtain

What happens to the characters in Mozart’s popular “Così Fan Tutte” when the curtain goes down? The love stories in the opera end so inconclusively that questions remain even for the cast.

Video Feature

The Music of Lou Reed

The music career of Lou Reed spanned several decades, and his work with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s is often cited as a major influence for many rock musicians.