Along with Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti, Bellini is part of a Mount Rushmore–like triptych of nineteenth-century Italian composers invoked whenever beautiful singing—bel canto—becomes an object of faith.
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Arya Roshanian,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
Conducted by Carlos Vieu, the event features an attractive lineup of international works by composers Carl Nielsen, Alberto Ginastera and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The film is debuting at the annual festival with other documentaries featuring fellow musicians, including Earth, Wind & Fire, Peter Frampton, and Alicia Keys.
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KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), a union for session musicians, is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) for breaching their collective bargaining agreement over use of their music by AI programs.
Next up was Raye, who received the Hal David Starlight Award for rising young talent, but likely just as much for her fierce advocacy for songwriters, who, as everyone in the room knows all too well, are unfairly at the bottom of the streaming economy.
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Jem Aswad,
Variety,
12 June 2026
Given the scale of a Tonys production and changing availability of certain stars, the three songwriters were rewriting lines up until the ceremony day.
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