The JACK Quartet and Ensemble Signal performed in a Pop Up! concert at the Miller Theater.

The Ecstatic Music Festival had some unlikely pairings on Tuesday at Merkin Concert Hall.

Tactus, the contemporary-music student ensemble at the Manhattan School of Music, performed Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen and Lieberson on Tuesday at Greenfield Hall.

The pianist Fred Hersch and his bassist, John Hébert, and drummer, Eric McPherson, have achieved a compatibility and a sense of themselves as a trio.

The singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey’s debut album opens at No. 2 despite complaints about her name, her songwriting and her lips.

A Brooklyn vagabond, whose music somehow combines the venom of PJ Harvey with a choir full of Emmylou Harrises singing harmony, plugs in.

The Beach Boys will perform at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, marking the first time the founding members of that band have played together in public in two decades, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced.

The East Coast Chamber Orchestra brought Schoenberg, Beethoven and Britten to the New School.

The adventurous Philadelphia-based Dolce Suono Ensemble made its New York debut at Symphony Space on Monday.

The saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón performed in concert at Montclair State University.

Music of Now Marathon at Symphony Space was the kick-off to the third annual Composers Now Festival, which runs through Feb. 28.

The Dessoff Choirs performed “Stile Antico” at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle on Friday, part of the Refracted Bach series.

There was a fascinating cross section of wealth in New York at Jay-Z’s charity show at Carnegie Hall on Monday.

NewUrbanJazz, now in its third season, is gaining traction with audiences, and the word is out among local artists of national stature that the concert series is a useful forum for delving into formats they don’t often explore.

On Sunday, we'll see if the Grammy Awards shake out like the 2011 album sales charts - as a race for second behind Adele and her album, "21."

Chicago Reader 02/08/12

New albums by Kari Jobe, Mohombi, Kellie Pickler, Bhi Bhiman and Jason Boland & the Stragglers.

The chamber sextet yMusic specializes in breaking down barriers between genres, which keeps its members very busy, including an appearance at the Ecstatic Music Festival this week.

The story of Armida and Rinaldo was an operatic favorite of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Juilliard School will present a semi-staged version of Gluck’s telling, “Armide.”

The Rolling Stones, the Chieftains, the Beach Boys and El Gran Combo, all 50 years old and still relevant.