Brooks & Dunn, who joined forces at the behest of a record company executive and helped drive the power country era of the 1990s, played a farewell concert on Thursday in Nashville.

Peter Stein, a German opera director, said he had been offended by his treatment after applying for a U.S. visa.

For many composers, synthesizers are last decade. Innovations like the mutantrumpet and the flute with a glissando headjoint are expanding the range of concert sounds.

Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, "The Warmth of Other Suns," and Sean Wilentz on his book, "Bob Dylan in America."

This week: The country singer Marty Stuart plays live in the studio, and Ben Ratliff discusses Miles Davis's album "Bitches Brew" on its 40th anniversary.

The rapper, whose given name is Clifford Harris, remains on probation after his release from prison on weapons charges stemming from a 2007 sting operation.

Works by the contemporary Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas had a central role when the Argento Chamber Ensemble opened its Moving Sounds Festival on Thursday.

Bargemusic’s Labor Day Festival, through Sunday, starts with new music for traditional Japanese instruments and touches on a handful of modern and avant-garde styles.

The bands’ new mission matches current military doctrine: the creation of small, self-contained forces.

In lots throughout New York City, drums are being pounded in preparation for the Steel Band Panorama Competition.

This weekend’s All Tomorrow’s Parties music festival in Monticello, N.Y., promises to be hugely loud and, as always, sponsor free.

The pianist Ian Hobson explored the Beethoven-Schumann link and the musical contrasts of Ignaz Moscheles and Chopin at the Dicapo Opera Theater on Tuesday evening.

Beijing opera’s luster has dimmed since its heyday as China’s most popular theatrical entertainment, and this ancient art forms struggles to attract a modern audience.

The original cast of the revue “Our Sinatra” has reunited to celebrate Ol’ Blue Eyes, at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.

Justin Bieber performed his first headlining show at Madison Square Garden with guests including Usher and Miley Cyrus.

A farewell-to-summer Vivaldi concert for early-music fans at the 4x4 Baroque Music Festival.

Wynton Marsalis and friends provided the live accompaniment for a silent film about Louis Armstrong’s childhood.

The Argento Chamber Ensemble is presenting Lunar Movements, a series built around movements from Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire,” and works influenced by that score.

Tamar Kaprelian played songs from her new debut album, “Sinner or a Saint,” at the Living Room on Friday night.

The ambient-noise musician Daniel Lopatin, known as Oneohtrix Point Never, played at Coco 66 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on Friday night.

Fans of the Beijing Opera Academy of China fear that it could fall victim to modernization as the economy surges, but the government is helping support the art form.

The Billboard 200 chart is facing new competition in an era when artists can be a hit even if their albums aren’t.

The pianist Steven Beck’s Bargemusic program included Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg’s 12-tone Suite for Piano.

The ad hoc quartet of Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Joe Lovano and Larry Grenadier held a jazz summit meeting (and benefit for a soup kitchen) in Marlboro, N.Y.

McCoy Tyner, J. D. Allen’s trio, Jason Moran’s trio and Revive Da Live were some of the acts taking part in this year’s Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.

New CDs from Jenny and Johnny, Little Big Town, Land of Talk and Danilo Pérez.

Members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra have rejected a contract offer, leaving the way open for a strike.

Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, Lauryn Hill and other stars revisited their defining works at the Rock the Bells festival on Governors Island.

Mr. Foster was an innovator of the distinctive style of the popular Florida A&M marching band.

In one experiment, college students were more likely to admit they had taken part in questionable activities when an online survey appeared more unprofessional.

The rediscovered score of Arthur Honegger’s “Chant de Libération” sheds new light on his efforts to improve his ambiguous wartime political position.

New releases from !!!, Tristan Perich, the Eels, Oval, Sufjan Stevens and Jenny Wilson.

The city, known as an incubator for high school musical talent, has been slowly building a jazz scene.

A selected guide to classical music and opera listings in the New York area.

A selected guide to jazz performances in New York City.

A selected guide to pop, rock, hip-hop and other music performances in the New York area.