When Lincoln Center kicks off its 50th anniversary festivities, it will, in a way, be celebrating the future more than commemorating the past.

Bjork sang at what may well have been her smallest gig of the year at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in SoHo, which was packed with about 300 people.

With this performance of “Götterdämmerung,” Otto Schenk’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle was being retired after more than 20 years.

The arithmetic was iffy, but the lung power at this concert was unstoppable.

Rex Reed’s exuberant storytelling and an unusually strong pop-jazz quintet made the evening one of the season’s most satisfying programs.

Pierre Boulez made the Staatskapelle Berlin sound like a different orchestra from the one heard in Daniel Barenboim’s performance of Mahler’s First Symphony.

During a midnight set — mostly of other people’s songs — Mr. Watt staggered back against his amp a few times, looking as if he might burst.

New releases from El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Chrisette Michelle and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society.

As Woodstock turns 40, its organizers, who are trying to plan a one-day mini-Woodstock in Brooklyn this August, can't agree on a tribute.

On the Brooklyn rapper’s playlist: music by Tumi and the Volume, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Doom, Noisettes and ********.

Celebrating its anniversary, the cultural marketplace hasn’t lived up to its promise, but hope persists.

Mr. Evans was the bassist with the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

A manager for the tenor José Carreras said that a British newspaper had misrepresented the singer’s remarks in an interview and that Mr. Carreras was not retiring from opera appearances.

American Classical Orchestra gave a semistaged performance of the neglected opera “Zémire et Azor” on Wednesday at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

The country singer Jason Aldean performed at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on Wednesday night.

An exhibition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC in SoHo recalls John Lennon’s time living in New York.

The New York Philharmonic gave the belated premiere of the cantata “The World in Flower” on Thursday night in a radiant performance conducted by Alan Gilbert.

In a set on Thursday night at Roseland, Franz Ferdinand mixed post-punk and new wave and got a club full of fans dancing to the sense of their own isolation.

Cam'ron reveals the name of his joint tour with Jadakiss. The rapper just filmed an "excessive" video for two songs from his upcoming Crime Pays album.

Eminem appeared on the German show "TV Total" and did an impromptu freestyle, joked about the swine flu and briefly got serious about his struggles with addiction.