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  1. Review: The Tragic Story of ‘An American Soldier’ Comes Home

    An opera about Danny Chen, an Army private who died by suicide after experiencing racist hazing while serving, was performed in New York, his hometown.

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    Brian Vu, center, and Alex DeSocio, right, in “An American Soldier” at the Perelman Performing Arts Center.
    CreditMarc J Franklin
  2. After Outcry, Concertgebouw Will Allow Jerusalem Quartet to Perform

    The Dutch concert hall reversed course after facing criticism for canceling performances by the Israeli ensemble because of security concerns.

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    The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, a prestigious concert hall, reversed course and said that the Jerusalem Quartet would be allowed to perform.
    CreditMelissa Schriek for The New York Times
  3. Review: Lise Davidsen Achieves Strauss’s Ideal in ‘Salome’

    Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in “Salome.” But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended.

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    Lise Davidsen, right, making her role debut as Salome at the Paris Opera.
    CreditCharles Duprat
  4. Barbara Hannigan, Daring Singer and Maestro, to Lead Iceland Symphony

    Hannigan, the rare artist to have a career as a soprano and a conductor, will assume a full-time conducting post for the first time.

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    Barbara Hannigan conducting the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2022. “I realized I could do things with them and ask things of them that they took so naturally,” she said of the orchestra.
    CreditLeifur Wilberg
  5. A Night to Remember at the Opera, Complete With a Phantom

    About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.

     By Elisabetta Povoledo and

    CreditAlessandro Penso for The New York Times
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  4. How Big Is Taylor Swift?

    As big as the Beatles? Michael Jackson? Beyoncé? We crunched the numbers.

    By Joe Coscarelli, Courtney Cox and Fred Bierman

     
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  10. Origins

    Why Do People Make Music?

    In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ancestors.

    By Carl Zimmer

     
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