Mr. Moustaki, who wrote “Milord” for Édith Piaf, was known for his poetic sensibility and melancholy ballads.    

The singer owes millions in taxes from the years 2009 to 2011, according to reports.    

Mike Darnell, who has supervised reality programming for Fox since before the term reality show entered the lexicon, oversaw “American Idol,” once the most popular show on American TV.    

Nate Chinen, a jazz critic for The Times, talks to host Ben Ratliff about Pat Metheny’s new album “Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels, Vol. 20.    

New recordings out this week include offerings by George Strait, Colin Stetson and N.O.R.E.    

The Red Bull Music Academy’s United States of Bass event at Santos Party House featured hip-hop acts from across the country performing Thursday night deep into Friday morning.    

The Repast Baroque Ensemble presented a decorous concert of works by Dietrich Buxtehede, Matthew Locke, Christopher Simpson and Johann Jakob Froberger.    

Peter Maxwell Davies’s “Eight Songs for a Mad King” was a featured work at a show by Cantata Profana at Roulette on Wednesday evening.    

The 70-voice New Amsterdam Singers ended its 45th season with a concert that featured poems set to song.    

Lea Salonga sings standards at the Café Carlyle in a show that is partly a tribute to Barbra Streisand and Ella Fitzgerald.    

Jane Monheit is singing at Birdland, and her best performances on Tuesday evening were of familiar songs that she turned into heartfelt reflections on motherhood.    

Conrad Tao performed a program on Tuesday at Le Poisson Rouge that previewed a new album and a festival that he’s organized.    

The songwriter Shane McAnally, who has helped write seven country No. 1 songs in recent years, found that his creativity flourished after he stopped hiding that he was gay.    

The British Library receives handwritten lyrics to “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “She Said She Said” and “In My Life.”    

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San Francisco Classical Voice 05/22/13

Mr. Shapero was a composer and a central figure of American Neo-Classicism, a school of composition that thrived in the 1940s and ’50s.    

Black Host, a new project led by the drummer and composer Gerald Cleaver, is a possible dream band.    

Joseph Kubera presents solo recitals less often than his stature warrants.    

The violinist Geoff Nuttall, director of the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival, follows the path of his predecessor, Charles Wadsworth, by aiming for entertaining as well as educational.