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  1. memes in the making
    Let’s Keep This ‘Things As John Mulaney Quotes’ Meme GoingWhich Real Housewife is “There’s a horse in this hospital!” and why is it Dorit?
    By Bethy Squires
  2. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Classical-Music Performances of 2018Messiaen, Mahler, and a mile of singers.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. classical-music review
    What’s Opera, Jaap? Van Zweden’s Opening Night as the Philharmonic’s New LeaderNew music by Ashley Fure, old music by Stravinsky, and a Wagner chaser.
    By Justin Davidson
  4. music review
    Music Review: Leonard Bernstein Is Paid Half-Hearted Tribute at TanglewoodAndris Nelsons conducted as if he would rather be at home watching TV. Some music can endure an uncommitted performance; Bernstein’s can’t.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. new music
    What’s That Sound? In Ashley Fure’s Compositions, It Could Be Almost Anything.Twanging aircraft cables? Crinkly paper moved by speaker vibrations? Sure.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. music review
    Music Review: Leonard Bernstein’s Mass Has Finally Found Its EraIt’s been called bloated, dated, naïve — but it also contains a lot of beauty.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. Beethoven’s Fidelio and Mahler’s Tenth, With the Conventions Tossed AwayBeethoven’s only opera, reinterpreted in the era of mass incarceration.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. classical music review
    Shostakovich, With Bright L.A. Glare, at Lincoln CenterDudamel brings out the symphony’s loudest, brightest aspects.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. The Case for the (Non-Harassing, Worth the Trouble) Creative GeniusWe don’t want more James Levines. But how about more Zaha Hadids?
    By Justin Davidson
  10. classical music
    The Future Is (a Little More) Female at the New York PhilharmonicDeborah Borda takes over as CEO, with big plans.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. sexual assault
    The Met May Not Survive the James Levine DisgraceHe was the charismatic center holding together a company that was already in financial trouble.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. classical music
    Barbara Hannigan Is a Soprano Who Doesn’t Stand StillA soprano who conducts orchestras with her entire physical being.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. music review
    Music Review: A Double Dose of Pierre Boulez’s RéponsThe composer’s electronic manifesto returns.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. The Over-the-Top Plans for Redoing Geffen Hall Are History. Good.The $500 million–plus plan to squeeze a new building into the shell would have been a disaster.
    By Justin Davidson
  15. classical music review
    The New York Philharmonic’s New Music Director: Thrilling to ExhaustionJaap van Zweden brings the excitement, over and over and over.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. respect the classics
    This Classical Music Festival Just Had Its Very Own Fyre Festival-Like Implosion“It was the most inept conducting I’ve probably ever seen, and that’s counting grad students.”
    By Hunter Harris
  17. fall preview 2017
    24 Classical and Dance Performances to See This FallIncluding the Resonant Bodies Festival, a Star Wars Film Concert Series, the New York Philharmonic’s 175th Birthday, and more.
    By Vulture Editors
  18. that’s a viola not a violin
    Onstage or On a Podcast, Nadia Sirota Makes You ListenA violist with a mission.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. I Went to a Concert With a Basement Full of Dead People and Loved ItIn the crypt, architectural and musical pleasure converge.
    By Justin Davidson
  20. respect the classics
    Bill Murray Is Making Classical Music Now, and He’s Taking It on TourHe promised a little West Side Story.
    By Hunter Harris
  21. What’s a Concerto in 2017? Whatever It Is, It’s Not DustyFresh (and diverse) composer blood is reviving a hoary form.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. close reads
    How Mozart in the Jungle Gets Classical MusicOur classical-music critic on a show he didn’t expect to love.
    By Justin Davidson
  23. The 10 Best Classical-Music Performances of 2016The best!
    By Justin Davidson
  24. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, the New Guy’s First NightJaap van Zweden steps up to conduct, two years before he officially takes over the job.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. A Dark, Glorious Shostakovich Moment at Carnegie“In these players’ hands, music accomplished what life often fails to do: fashion beauty out of pain.”
    By Justin Davidson
  26. At Carnegie Hall Last Night, El Sistema’s StarGustavo Dudamel comes to town.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. fall preview 2016
    37 Classical and Dance Performances to Check Out This FallTristan und Isolde, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and more
    By Vulture Editors
  28. fall preview 2016
    What Vulture’s Critics Are Most Excited for This FallTheir top five picks for the season.
    By David Edelstein, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Craig Jenkins
  29. classical music
    The Metropolitan Opera’s James Levine to RetireHe’ll step down at the end of the current season.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. classical music
    A 21-Hour Day of Unfinished, Impossible Music: Stockhausen’s KlangA 21-hour performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. classical music
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s New Building Gets New MusicStarting with a sonic walk over to the Met Breuer.
    By Justin Davidson
  32. classical music
    Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s Star Power, Back at Full Strength at Carnegie HallThe baritone’s return.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. classical music
    Talking to Jaap van Zweden, the New York Philharmonic’s Next Conductor“I met my wife, and after an hour I told her that I was going to marry her. I had the same feeling with this orchestra.”
    By Justin Davidson
  34. The New York Philharmonic’s New Director Is Jaap van ZwedenUp from Dallas.
    By Justin Davidson
  35. classical music
    Reviewing the Scores of 2015’s Celebrated FilmsIt’s the season of prestige scores.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. Can the New York Philharmonic Get Funny?In Split, a new commission.
    By Justin Davidson
  37. Thomas Heatherwick Will Redo David Geffen HallThe post–Avery Fisher era gets under way.
    By Justin Davidson
  38. year in culture 2015
    The 10 Best Classical Performances of 2015Written on Skin, Joan of Arc at the Stake, and more.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. classical music
    A Fantastic Opening for National Sawdust“Directed not to one constituency but many.”
    By Justin Davidson
  40. On Opening Night, a Clue to the Philharmonic’s Future?And a very good night of music.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. the sound of money
    Can This Start-up With Cellos Shake Up Classical Music’s Business-As-Usual?National Sawdust’s wild ambitions — artistic and financial.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. fall preview 2015
    37 Classical Music and Dance Performances to See This FallFrom Otello at the Met to Williamsburg’s National Sawdust.
    By Rebecca Milzoff
  43. music
    Minimalist Composer La Monte Young on His Life and Immeasurable Influence“It’s not just a work of genius — I did things no one ever dreamed of and I set up an approach to sound that parallels universal structure.”
    By Rob Tannenbaum
  44. The Making of a Modern Classical Prodigy“I’m like, ‘Have you ignored your teacher recently?’ And they’re like, ‘Why would I ignore my teacher?’”
    By Nick Tabor
  45. Conlon Nancarrow’s Math-Mad MusicThe Whitney brings attention to a great American eccentric.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. books
    How Reynold Levy (Says He) Saved Lincoln CenterThe former chairman dishes in his new book.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. classical music
    Millennials Come Out for LOTR in ConcertThis audience belongs to a generation that will watch action epics on their wristwatch, so it’s not just the scale of the image that pulls them in.
    By Justin Davidson
  48. classical music
    On 50 Years of Meredith Monk’s Excellent WeirdnessShe has been carrying out a slow revolution, with no end in sight.
    By Justin Davidson
  49. classical music
    An Ordinary Concert at Alice Tully Hall That Was Anything ButAn evening when the 18th century came alive.
    By Justin Davidson
  50. classical music
    The Future of Orchestral Music in Two PiecesA pair of new pieces suggest a way forward in the orchestral world.
    By Justin Davidson
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