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Esa-Pekka Salonen, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony since 2020, introduced on Thursday that he would step down when his contract expires subsequent 12 months, citing variations with the orchestra’s board. Salonen, 65, a groundbreaking conductor who has promoted new music and experimented with digital actuality and synthetic intelligence, stated he not noticed […] More

Helena Bonham Carter stars on this three-part “Masterpiece” biographical drama about Noele Gordon, a pioneer of British tv. “Stars in” may be understating it: She’s in practically each scene, trembling, laughing, sobbing, scolding, scheming, singing “Rose’s Turn.” Her chin tilt is the very axis on which the present spins. Gordon, generally known as Nolly, was […] More

This week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly tradition roundup present on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, contains segments on: Popcast’s win on the 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards for greatest music podcast The 2024 Oscars, together with Ryan Gosling’s efficiency of “I’m Just Ken” and Diane Warren’s reported meltdown The fast ascent of […] More

But whereas mainstream nation has leaned into booze, vehicles and arena-scale bombast, Musgraves prefers delicacy, element and wryly upending small-town expectations. The title music of her second album, “Pageant Material,” defined: “It ain’t that I don’t care about world peace/But I don’t see how I can repair it in a swimsuit on a stage.” Her […] More

Sakamoto filmed the live performance over every week in September 2022. He and the movie’s director, his son, Neo Sora, meticulously designed the look of the film, together with storyboards to point out how the lighting would change. It is a type of monochromatic tackle the shifting of sunshine as morning turns to afternoon, then […] More

Breastchester, the country upstate New York residence that’s house to the “Girls5eva” star Paula Pell, is a two-hour drive from Manhattan, on the finish of a protracted stretch of highway the place occasional yoga studios and artwork galleries ultimately give solution to a tranquil countryside. It is secluded, however its proprietor is hardly in want […] More

“But, sure, clearly, there’s a drawback with a Chinese app spying on Americans and feeding us propaganda. You need American apps doing that.” — MICHAEL KOSTA “Well, for those who guys are anxious concerning the Chinese gathering knowledge on Americans, wait until you discover out who makes the telephones.” — SETH MEYERS “Only 50 Democrats […] More

Michael Culver, the British actor greatest recognized for one of many memorable dying scenes within the Star Wars franchise, died on February 27. He was 85. Mr. Culver’s dying was confirmed by Alliance Agents, which posted an announcement to social media on Tuesday, and his agent, Thomas Bowington. The company didn’t give a reason behind […] More

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Over the previous few years, one query has been hovering over the careers of a few of the most well-known pop singers on this planet: Have they reached the tier of Main Pop Girl? It is elite firm — assume Rihanna, Taylor, Ariana. But what about […] More

The yr 2026 will mark James Conlon’s twentieth anniversary as music director of the Los Angeles Opera. That appeared to him like it might be the fitting time to step down. “I’ve had 20 years — that’s a superb spherical quantity,” Conlon, 73, stated in a phone interview. “I wish to cease once I’m at […] More

If you watch a lot Danish tv — and that is an possibility nowadays, wherever you occur to dwell — a query rises: How would Denmark perform with out Sofie Grabol? In “The Killing” (“Forbrydelsen”), which put Danish TV on the map and made Grabol a star again in 2007, the nation’s justice system was […] More

“Apples Never Fall,” premiering Thursday on Peacock, is the third Liane Moriarty e book to be tailored for tv, following HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and Hulu’s “Nine Perfect Strangers.” But should you instructed me it was the tenth, I’d imagine you, given how acquainted all of it feels. The seven-episode mini-series is so well-oiled and […] More