A concert presented by the Emerson String Quartet on Sunday showed that even one of the world’s premier chamber ensembles could be daunted by having to project across too vast a space.

As seen at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk are an ideally matched duo.

Gunther Schuller’s “Where the Word Ends,” a commission from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, received its world premiere last week in Boston and its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on Monday.

Mr. Neuhaus was a percussionist known for creating site-specific works of “sound sculpture,” allowing unsuspecting passers-by to come upon musical sounds in unlikely places.

On Saturday evening at the Allen Room, where he appeared as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, Alan Cumming strutted his considerable gifts.

“The Cradle Will Rock” is a landmark music-theater work that audiences seldom get to see.

As waves of opulently strange, beautiful sounds flooded the Miller Theater on Friday during the American premiere of “In Vain,” it often seemed that supernatural forces were at work.

If the merger is approved by regulators it would create a company with almost $6 billion in revenue and a dominant position up and down the music supply chain.

Beirut, the band led by the 22-year-old songwriter Zach Condon, traverses international styles and finds oompah, brasses, accordion and misgivings.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Lil Wayne and Coldplay received multiple awards on Sunday night.

To hold the attention of a television audience that has increasingly been ignoring the Grammy Awards show in recent years, performers cranked up the instruments and unleashed their vocals.

Wavves, at Less Artists More Condos in the West Village, was a dynamic, thrilling two-piece outfit.

It would not be hyperbolic to describe Lizz Wright, who appeared at the Allen Room as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, as an awesome talent.

Far from being unified, Franz Welser-Möst’s programs with the Cleveland Orchestra for three concerts at Carnegie Hall seemed almost defiantly antithematic.

New releases from Lonely Island, India.Arie, the Von Bondies and Nels Cline.

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