Music Reviews

Mickey Mouse Faces Music as Glass Inspired by Disney: Interview Philip Glass lists some of his top inspirations: Mohandas Gandhi, Walt Disney.

U2 to Play at Glastonbury Festival For First Time in 2010 U2 will play England’s Glastonbury festival for the first time next year, the 40th anniversary of the music event, the Irish rock band said on their Web site.

McCartney Rouses New York, Killers Stomp London on Live CDs Paul McCartney is wrapping up his second encore. It’s 11:30 p.m. He belts out “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

Apollo ‘Dreamgirls’ Sparkles With Sequins, Stars: Jeremy Gerard “Dreamgirls,” revived at the Apollo Theater in New York’s Harlem, introduces a hot new star named Moya Angela as the indomitable heartsick singer, Effie White.

Helsinki’s $208 Million New Music Center Upstages Aalto’s Hall Osmo Vaenskae, the Finnish music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis, is looking forward to the opening of a new music center in Helsinki. He doesn’t have anything nice to say about the acoustics in Finlandia Hall, the city’s current main concert venue.

Black Eyed Peas, Shakira Offer Respite From Jackson: CD Review Some of us want to move on from soothing memories of the King of Pop and the Fab Four, so here are a few suggestions for catching up with today’s music.

UBS Circus Backing Wins Award From U.K. Arts & Business Charity UBS AG, Switzerland’s biggest bank by assets, won a U.K. philanthropy award for backing a circus training center in London.

Gulag Killers Inspire Patrice Chereau in Met Debut: Interview Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera presents the most depressing work in its fall season, “From the House of the Dead.”