The show celebrated the Notorious B.I.G., who would have turned 44 on Saturday. “The greatest rapper of all time isn’t here to celebrate with us,” Mr. Combs said before the concert closed with “I’ll Be Missing You.”
The rapper delights in eradicating the walls between the sacred and the secular.
“Stranger to Stranger” is the latest tuneful installment in a career that has often had far more to do with curiosity than crowd-pleasing.
Hear the tracks that caught our pop critics’ attention, from Corinne Bailey Rae’s springy new song to Okkervil River’s farewell to an era.
The German countertenor, accompanied by Tamar Halperin on harpsichord, performed songs from 17th-century Britain with his usual eloquence.
The finale concert concluding Trinity’s spring music season brought together diverse ensembles, including various choirs and a Norwegian string ensemble.
The Philharmonic screened ‘City Lights,’ with music conducted by Timothy Brock, and presented ‘Fantasia: Live in Concert,’ led by Joshua Gersen.
Mr. Levine’s entrance to conduct the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in a program of Russian favorites on Thursday night drew a long and loud ovation.
This string quartet performed a survey of Leon Kirchner’s complete quartets at the Rose Studio, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Ebullient at 79, Mr. Palmieri blended funk and Afro-Cuban rhythm at the Red Bull Music Academy Festival in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.
She performed her new album, “Hopelessness,” for the first time at the Park Avenue Armory, part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art screening of Murat Eyuboglu’s mournful film about the Colorado River included live performances of its original music.
Mr. Malaby is out with a four-part suite for this quartet, with the guitarist Ben Monder, the bassist Eivind Opsvik and the drummer Nasheet Waits.
Three works by this influential composer, featuring 10 guitarists conducted by John Myers, at the Masonic Hall, were part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival.
