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    Jimmy Buffett, who built a business empire around the song “Margaritaville,” performs in Key West, Fla., in 2011.
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    Jimmy Buffett Was More Than Beaches and Booze

    There was wistfulness behind party tunes like “Margaritaville.” Buffett helped listeners feel like they’d earned the good times just by holding on.

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      Tammy Wynette’s legacy has become complicated, perhaps because her tumultuous life and storied career have too often been conflated with the flattest and most literal reading of her signature song.
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      Critic’s Notebook

      Are We Finally Ready to Take Tammy Wynette Seriously?

      The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.

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    Ailyn Pérez en Santa Fe, Nuevo México. Pérez será la solista protagonista de Florencia en el Amazonas en el Met, en noviembre.
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    El suntuoso ascenso de Ailyn Pérez

    La soprano de ascendencia mexicana protagonizará “Florencia en el Amazonas”, el primer espectáculo en español de la Ópera Metropolitana de Nueva York.

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    Clockwise from left: Benjamin Britten, Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg.
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    How Classical Composers Made Music After the Holocaust

    In “Time’s Echo,” the classical music critic Jeremy Eichler examines the life and work of Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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    The pianist Emanuel Ax made his New York debut a half-century ago. Looking back, he said, “I just started, and I stuck to it.”
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    For 50 Years, Emanuel Ax Has Made Music Sound Simply Right

    Understated and unarrogant, Ax can be taken for granted. But he has long been, and continues to be, one of the finest American pianists.

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    John Eliot Gardiner had at least 10 more planned engagements this year, including performances at Carnegie Hall and at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.
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    Maestro Accused of Striking Singer Withdraws From Performances

    John Eliot Gardiner said he would take time off until next year to “get the specialist help I recognize that I have needed for some time.”

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    5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

    A selection from Hyperion’s now-streaming catalog, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Tchaikovsky and Yunchan Lim’s Liszt are among the highlights.

     

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    36 Hours in Amsterdam

    The Dutch capital is busier and more sanitized than you remember, but visitors can find glimpses of Amsterdam where the city’s creative spirit is still brimming.

    By Nina Siegal

     
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  10. Henry Timms Wants to Tear Down Walls at Lincoln Center

    With David Geffen Hall open, Lincoln Center’s leader is working to diversify programming, staff and audiences and engage the city. But some worry about what’s being lost.

    By Javier C. Hernández and Robin Pogrebin