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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Interview
    Composer Caroline Shaw: ‘I’ve learnt to know what I’m good for’

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning musician has worked with megastars but remains loyal to her chamber music roots

    A woman poses for a picture in a park
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    The Life of a Song
    Low Rider — War’s 1975 track celebrated a thriving subculture

    The insistently catchy song was inspired by Mexican Americans and their souped-up cars

    A group of men wearing 1970s clothes stand in a room playing musical instruments
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    ObituaryKris Kristofferson
    Kris Kristofferson, singer, songwriter and actor, 1936-2024

    He broke the mould in Nashville but was rarely satisfied with his work

    Musician Kris Kristofferson
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    FT Series
    HTSI special: the art of intimacy

    Our autumn arts special features Rebecca Hall, Andrew O’Hagan, the Rohrwacher sisters and many more

    Midnight swim (all the blue in the world), 2023, by Christopher Hartmann
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Five stars for Igor Levit’s rich recording of Brahms’ Piano Sonatas

    Christian Thielemann conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in this triple album that also includes a set of solo piano pieces

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Hocus focus: the witch guide to autumn 2024

    Something wicked this way comes…

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Seun Kuti and Egypt 80: Heavier Yet — the sound of rebellion

    The son of Fela Kuti revives his father’s revolutionary spirit on a record filled with furious percussion

    A man wearing a white cord jacket and beaded necklaces holds a saxophone and raises his left fist defiantly
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Come, gentle listener, and bathe in Coldplay’s cosmic Moon Music

    The band’s latest record is all billowing orchestrations, celestial shimmers and feelgood messages

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Pink Floyd agrees deal to sell music rights to Sony for $400mn

    The deal struck this week marks the end of years of infighting among band members over the sale

    Pink Floyd at a photo session in the Japanese garden, Tokyo, March 1972
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Review
    English National Opera opens season with stylish La bohème and Suor Angelica

    Funding cuts mean the number of productions is down but two stagings of Puccini show that the quality remains

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    London’s K-Music Festival brings traditional Korean sounds with a contemporary twist

    Season of shows gift performances that are far from the ultra-processed offerings of K-pop

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Review
    London Philharmonic Orchestra and English Touring Opera launch new seasons with Joyce DiDonato and fairytale opera

    Glitz and smart programming galore at Royal Festival Hall and Hackney Empire

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Review
    Janet Jackson sticks to the script in London show after unwise Kamala Harris comments

    The singer crammed almost 40 tracks into a diligent but bland performance at the O2 Arena

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    ReviewArts
    The Wonder of Stevie podcast review — unabashed celebration of a musical colossus

    Pop stars and celebrities — including Barack and Michelle Obama — discuss the musician’s 1970s masterpieces

    A man sits at an array of keyboards and synthesisers, singing into a microphone
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Interview
    Yuval Sharon wants to create an ‘anti-elite’ opera

    Detroit Opera House’s artistic director on the battle to balance tradition and innovation

    A man conducts an orchestra onstage
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    The Life of a Song
    Lara’s Theme — melody from Dr Zhivago travelled far and wide

    Named after Julie Christie’s character in the 1965 film, Maurice Jarre’s tune became a global hit with added lyrics

    A woman stands in a snowy landscape, wearing a fur hat and coat; the neck of a stringed instrument, such as a balalaika, is visible in the foreground
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI special: the art of intimacy
    HTSI editor’s letter: the art of intimacy

    Rebecca Hall, Arooj Aftab, Louis Fratino, and Alba and Alice Rohrwacher lead a meditative autumn arts special

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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    HTSI
    How to spend it… in October

    15 brilliant things to do, buy and eat this month, as recommended by HTSI writers

    Bob Colacello, Buckingham Palace, London, 2001, by Jonathan Becker
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Lady Gaga belts out Broadway standards in surprise Joker album

    Two originals accompany classic show tunes such as ‘That’s Entertainment’ and ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now’

    A woman with ragged blonde hair and streaky black make-up looks straight ahead, smiling slightly
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Review
    Les contes d’Hoffmann opera review — mezzo causes a stir on her Met debut

    Also reviewed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera: conductor brings musical revelations in Tosca

    A man wearing a suit and dark glasses stands with a pleading expression next to a woman dressed as a doll-like automaton; her expression is blank
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Review
    Alt-rock icon Thurston Moore: ‘Reunions are a terrible idea!’

    The singer-guitarist on moving to London, his sixth solo album and why Sonic Youth reforming is highly unlikely

    A middle-aged man stands in woodland
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Review
    Grounded, Metropolitan Opera review — drone-pilot story has polish but lacks musical drama

    Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo has a beautiful sound in Jeanine Tesori’s new work

    A woman dressed in combat gear sits on a set of steps, looking concerned
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI special: the art of intimacy
    Arooj Aftab is queen of the night

    The first Pakistani musician to win a Grammy sheds light on her nocturnal universe

    Arooj Aftab wears Hermès leather jacket, POA. Giovanni Raspini gold-plated necklaces, £225 (top) and £430 (bottom). Throughout, T-shirt and trousers, Aftab’s own
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Sophie — a posthumous tribute to a musical visionary

    The electronic producer, who died in 2021, left behind a trove of unfinished material which forms the basis for this self-titled release

    A close-up photo of Sophie, with bobbed red hair, posing in front of an ethereal background surrounded by smoke
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Frisell, Downes & Cyrille: Breaking the Shell — trio jazz with churchlike tones

    Pipe organ adds a sense of unease to this captivating set of original compositions and folk songs

    A black and white photo of Bill Frisell, Andrew Cyrille and Kit Downes standing together in a church, all smiling at the camera
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