The performance of Haydn’s oratorio “Die Schöpfung” (“The Creation”), by participants of the Weill Music Institute’s latest workshop, was utterly inspired.

Paul Simon’s show was the inaugural performance at the newly renovated Beacon Theater.

The arrival of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in China seemed like an event that should have taken place long ago.

This concert resented two compositions and one improvisation, all related to feedback.

New releases from Morrissey, Ryan Leslie and Thursday.

Stuart Oderman has been providing musical accompaniment for silent films at libraries and museums for decades.

Neko Case’s songs are full of claws, wolves, tornadoes, birds of prey and the occasional gust of wind. But her voice is the real force of nature.

Anne Steele, a singing waitress who won the Metrostar Talent Challenge, will headline her own cabaret show at the Metropolitan Room.

Mark Morganelli will be honored by the Westchester Arts Council for more than 30 years of organizing and promoting jazz concerts.

The Heads of State, composed of Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant, performed at the Nokia Theater on Thursday night.

Jefferson Friedman, who melds classical music training with rock sensibilities, was the subject of a Composer Portraits concert at the Miller Theater on Thursday.

The pianist Stephen Hough performed works by Bach, Copland and Chopin, among others, at Carnegie Hall on Thursday.

The Columbus Symphony Orchestra said it would not renew the contract of its executive director, Tony Beadle, when it expires in August.

A Jazz at Lincoln Center concert in honor of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” and John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” offered new ways to think about two endlessly fetishized records.

Betty Buckley taught a master class in what it is like to be a Broadway diva. And yes, it is hard work.

A connoisseur of the old-fashioned, M. Ward likes vintage instruments, doesn’t listen to much current music and makes his records at home.

A few voices have raised concerns about long-term effects of showing live opera performances in movie theaters.

David McVicar is not a fan of Verdi’s romantic melodrama, “Il Trovatore.” His new production of it, his Metropolitan Opera debut, opens on Monday.

Reviews of releases by Loney Dear, Ruthie Foster, Phosphorescent, Christine Balfa, N.A.S.A., and of a two-CD benefit compilation titled “Dark Was the Night.”

A singer, pianist and songwriter with an independent spirit, Ms. Dearie pursued a singular career that blurred the line between jazz and cabaret.