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July 2, 2020 at 6:43 pm

Herman Cain Hospitalized With Coronavirus

Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate, announced on Twitter on Thursday that he had been hospitalized with the coronavirus. Cain, the former chief executive...

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June 1, 2020 at 10:21 pm

The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Fall Performances

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera said Monday that the coronavirus pandemic would force the company to cancel its fall season, thrusting the Met into...

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October 31, 2016 at 11:58 am

Nonprofits unite to help Boston Globe pay classical music critic

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation will help pay for Zoe Madonna...

The sheep in Louis Andriessenâ€™s â€œDe Materie,” as it’s performed at the Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, March 21, 2016. The 100 sheep appear in the eerie, endearing section near the end of Heiner Goebbelsâ€™s dream-like staging of Andriessenâ€™s opera, an avant-garde Dutch work from 1988. (Robert Altman/The New York Times)

March 25, 2016 at 7:17 pm

A warm, woolly backstage tale: How 100 sheep became New York opera stars

A look at how to cast and direct an opera featuring 100 sheep in New York City.

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The violinist Stefan Arzberger, in New York, June 6, 2015. Arzberger, a member of the Leipzig String Quartet, is fighting charges that he attacked a 64-year-old woman in a Manhattan hotel this spring. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)

June 12, 2015 at 6:37 pm

The bizarre case of the naked violinist, attempted murder and a prostitute

Leipzig String Quartet violinist Stefan Arzberger faces criminal charges of attempted murder, burglary, strangulation and assault.

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May 16, 2015 at 2:07 pm

Minnesota Orchestra plays sold-out show in Cuba

The Minnesota Orchestra’s concert in Havana, Cuba, Friday night was greeted not only as a rare chance to hear an orchestra from overseas, but as...

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March 5, 2015 at 12:24 pm

Youth symphony quashes new work, citing Nazi anthem

“It feels like murder to me,” says composer Jonas Tarm, whose piece includes a musical quotation from the “Horst Wessel” song. The New York Youth...

November 22, 2014 at 8:09 pm

U.S. orchestras play with fewer pieces, in tune with austerity

Composers have long dreamed of bigger orchestras. In Mozart’s day, when orchestras were small by modern standards, he boasted in a letter of hearing one...

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October 20, 2014 at 9:17 pm

‘Klinghoffer’ opera goes on at New York’s Met despite protests

NEW YORK — At the Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer” on Monday night, men in suits and women in...

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April 19, 2013 at 10:19 pm

Suspect arrested after door-to-door manhunt locks down city VIEW

BOSTON — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, whose flight from the police after a furious gunfight early Friday sparked an intense manhunt...

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