Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

By the 17th century, the violin’s importance had already been established both as a solo instrument and as the workhorse of instrumental ensembles. And it was in Italy during this period that ...

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Addictive sprawling hip hop, specially crafted bird-imitating instruments, and bagpipe hyperpop are the order of the day in David McKenna's latest French dispatch ...