Music Review

Lyrics Expressing Enigmas Over Layers of Sound

By JON PARELES

Willie Davis for The New York Times

Zammuto From left, Mike Zammuto, Nick Zammuto and Gene Back at Glasslands Gallery. (Sean Dixon is the other member of the band.)

Nick Zammuto’s new band, Zammuto, played at Glasslands Gallery, augmenting guitars, keyboard, bass and drums with video and computer capabilities.

Music Review

Lovelorn Texts, Lovingly Resurrected

By ALLAN KOZINN

The early-music ensemble Artek offered a beautifully sung concert of all 19 of Monteverdi’s mostly lovelorn texts from his Book 4 of madrigals.

Music Review

Keeping the Vision New for 25 Years

By ZACHARY WOOLFE

Bang on a Can, the iconoclastic new-music collective, performed at Alice Tully Hall on Saturday in the run-up to its annual marathon, which is coming in June.

Music Review

Imaginative Pairings Across Time

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

On Monday the Australian Chamber Orchestra played works by Webern, Crumb and others at Zankel Hall, joined by Dawn Upshaw.

May 1, 2012

Pop Acts Chosen for Opening of Olympics

Duran Duran, Stereophonics, Snow Patrol and Paolo Nutini are to perform in Hyde Park on July 27 for the opening of the Olympics in London.

May 1, 2012

Staten Island, Hotbed of Pop Music

A new exhibition highlights Staten Island's deep musical roots.

May 1, 2012

Ringo Starr and Dave Stewart Working on a Film

Former members of the Beatles and the Eurythmics are making a musical film for Paramount Pictures.

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Music in Review

Paul Lewis playing an all-Schubert program, his second of the season, at the 92nd Street Y.

Piano Works Both Powerful and Poetic

By JAMES R. OESTREICH and STEVE SMITH

The English pianist Paul Lewis, at the 92nd Street Y; the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra, led by Yuri Bashmet and featuring the cellist Mischa Maisky, at Avery Fisher Hall.

Music Review

Arif Lohar Above center, Mr. Lohar, the Pakistani singer of Sufi music, leading his band.

Delivering Delirium, With Long Incantations and Hypnotic Beats

By JON PARELES

Arif Lohar, the Pakistani singer and exponent of Sufi music, brought his infectious performance to a sold-out crowd at Asia Society on Friday night.

A Diplomat Whose Language Is Song

New Music

Blown Away, Carrie Underwood’s album on 19/Arista Nashville, starts bold, grows quieter and then returns to explosiveness.

Breathing Fire With Ballads

By JON CARAMANICA, JON PARELES and NATE CHINEN

Carrie Underwood’s fourth album, “Blown Away,” is a one-two punch of brutality.

Music Review

Julie Feeney The award-winning Irish songwriter and singer on Thursday at the Irish Arts Center.

Theatrical on the Shell, Intricate at the Core

By JON PARELES

A brainy, adventurous Irish songwriter lives within the flamboyant theatricality of Julie Feeney, who’s playing a 10-night stand at the Irish Arts Center.

Music Review

Following A Spirit Of Discovery

By NATE CHINEN

The Wayne Shorter Quartet gave a magnificent and volatile performance at the Rose Theater on Friday night.

Music Review

Philadelphia Orchestra Simon Rattle conducted works by Brahms, Schumann and Webern at Carnegie Hall on Friday night.

A Symbiotic Relationship That Just Keeps Growing

By STEVE SMITH

Mutual admiration appeared to be the sentiment as Simon Rattle conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Music Review

The Makropulos Case Karita Mattila stars in the Janacek opera as a singer with a personal interest in a law case, at the Metropolitan Opera.

A Mysterious Woman With a Past, 300 Years of It

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Karita Mattila stars at the Met in Janacek’s “Makropulos Case” as a mysterious opera singer with a long past.

The pianist Enrique Haneine and the bassist Andy Eulau in the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday preparing for the International Jazz Day concert.

Where Nations Debate, Harmony of a Jazzy Kind

By LARRY ROHTER

Unesco is preparing to celebrate the first International Jazz Day with a concert Monday at the United Nations General Assembly.

Gabriel Kahane Is a One-Man Cultural Cuisinart

By ZACHARY WOOLFE

A little folksy pop swirled with Schoenberg.

Playlist

Branford Marsalis, seated, with, from far left, Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis and Justin Faulkner.

Record Store Day Specials and Some Asian Vibes

By NATE CHINEN

Branford Marsalis, Steve Kuhn and Tomas Fujiwara headline new jazz releases, and Feist and Mastodon cover one another.

Frank van Aken, with his wife Eva-Maria Westbroek, filled in for a major role in Wagner’s “Die Walküre” on Saturday.

When Tenor Falls Ill, the Met Calls on a Replacement in Town to See His Wife Sing

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

The substitute for the tenor Jonas Kaufmann, the intended Siegmund in a Saturday matinee of Wagner’s “Walküre,” was the Dutch tenor Frank van Aken, who is married to Eva-Maria Westbroek, who sang Sieglinde.