The novelist Alice Walker and the rock musician Roger Waters had called upon Alicia Keys to cancel a planned concert in Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.    

Mr. O’Farrill and his band, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, will have access to rehearsal space and an administrative office at the school’s new Herb Alpert Center.    

Female and male perspectives contrasted in Kelly Rowland and The-Dream’s concert Thursday night at the Best Buy Theater.    

The Locrian Chamber Players, who avoid introductions to the works they play, offered five modern pieces at Riverside Church.    

Audience participation and expert advice make new operas stronger, according to the American Lyric Theater, which uses the InsightALT festival as a developmental tool.    

The show’s expensive experiment to improve ratings by bringing in the singing superstars Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj is officially over.    

MinnPost 05/31/13

After free performances in Central Park for 39 summers, the opera canceled its planned events, citing the increasing unpredictability of the weather in recent years.    

Ben Ratliff and Jon Caramanica discuss Black Flag’s legacy and competing reunion tours.    

Icona Pop, a Swedish duo whose “I Love It” has given a hedonistic beat to TV shows, will perform at Randalls Island on Saturday in the Governors Ball music festival.    

After playing in bands and writing for others, Aoife O’Donovan is releasing her first solo album, “Fossils.”    

LeAnn Rimes’s new album, “Spitfire,” mines the tabloid turmoil of her recent private life.    

The newly digitized archives of the New York Philharmonic trace Leonard Bernstein’s efforts to win acceptance for avant-garde composers, with mixed results.    

A formal description of Luigi Dallapiccola’s one-act “Il Prigioniero,” a bleak 12-tone opera about a despairing prisoner during the Spanish Inquisition, might not sound like a crowd pleaser.    

Mr. Junior’s voice was huge and powerful, and it held up through more than two dozen albums and 57 years of performing with the Dells.    

Sobriety isn’t always a songwriter’s friend, but it has brought out the best in the former Drive-By Trucker.    

The Philadelphia Inquirer 05/30/13

Al-Ahram (Cairo) 05/29/13

Standpoint (UK) 06/13

“Get Lucky,” a song from the French electronic duo Daft Punk that nods to disco, has struck a chord with a broad range of listeners.