The concert presented by Max Lifchitz and his North/South Chamber Orchestra at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday was billed as a 30th-anniversary gala.

Yelawolf, while an easy fetish object — white, rural, tattooed, skateboarder-friendly, an anomaly among anomalies — isn’t an outsider in Southern rap.

The struggling New York City Opera, operating with a slender financial cushion, announced plans on Tuesday for another stripped down, five-production season.

Jeanine Tesori, as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, was the host of an autobiographical extravaganza at the Allen Room.

on Sunday the French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras made his New York recital debut at the Frick Collection, with Alexandre Tharaud accompanying him.

“Bodymusic,” is a witty, imaginative new piece presented by the Argento Chamber Ensemble at the Miller Theater on Friday.

Both the concise and the verbose sides of Shostakovich were represented on Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall.

The rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr., had pleaded guilty in October, after being arrested in 2007.

The Oscars telecast exposed an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in identity crisis: the ceremony was big and commercial; the winners were small and arty.

The editor of Newsweek, Jon Meacham, is negotiating to add a television job to his schedule.