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What is Sufi Kathak? As the Indian dancer Manjari Chaturvedi made abundantly clear during her New York debut at Symphony Space on Tuesday, Sufi Kathak is a dance style invented by Manjari Chaturvedi. It borrows from Kathak, an Indian classical dance with both Hindu and Muslim roots, to express the mysticism of Sufi poetry and music. Ruby Washington/The New York Times Manjari Chaturvedi performing Sufi Kathak, Indian classical dance mixed with Sufi mysticism, at Symphony Space. A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. The solo performance, presented by the Indo-American Arts [...]

Take a few words by Joyce. How about “herds innumerable” from the Cyclops episode in “Ulysses,” made up of “bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares and polled calves and longwools and storesheep and Cuffe’s prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bullocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves:” — oh, good, a colon, take a breath — “and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, [...]

Carnegie Hall will remain dark on this Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Ditto the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on Friday and the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington on Saturday. The inactivity is not of their choosing. The San Francisco Symphony, which was to have filled those slots, canceled its East Coast tour on Sunday, when its management and musicians failed to reach an agreement on a new contract during a players’ strike, then four days old. The strike was declared last Wednesday, just a week before the first scheduled Carnegie concert, and it was clear that the [...]

By nature if not by definition jazz musicians are tireless consolidators: of languages and rituals, of literatures and styles. Some artists exercise that impulse entirely within the jazz tradition, building on roughly a century of precedent (or, in too many cases, just a choice decade or two). Others seek purpose in charting unexpected routes or teasing out unlikely connections — something you may have noticed more of lately, especially among musicians under 40, and especially in New York. The pianist Bobby Avey is in his 20s, and has firmly aligned himself with those aims. A former protégé of the saxophonist [...]

Richard Dare made a splash last year as an outspoken entrepreneur turned arts administrator and started work on Jan. 2 as the president and chief executive of the New Jersey Symphony, with the promise that his business acumen would bring it new luster. On Friday, nine days later, he resigned, citing a 1996 case in which he was charged with an “attempted lewd act upon” a 15-year-old girl, whom he later married. In a statement, Mr. Dare, 48, said he believed that “media attention to my family’s personal life will harm the organization and musicians I cherish, as well as [...]

For any musical institution a 50th anniversary is cause for celebration. But there must be a special pride in the occasion if you happen to be a new-music group responsible for bringing into existence pieces that have attained lives of their own. So it was when the Aeolian Chamber Players, a mixed ensemble that made its New York debut at Town Hall in January 1962, celebrated a half-century with a concert in the Thalia at Symphony Space on Friday evening. At Town Hall the players had introduced a new piece, Ralph Shapey’s “Discourse for Four Instruments,” in a varied program [...]

Since its founding in 1985 the World Music Institute has enriched New York’s cultural ecosphere with events featuring accomplished practitioners of classical and folkloric traditions from around the globe. Recently the institute has begun to sprinkle among its grander offerings a handful of more casual affairs. Global Salon, a new series in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, is meant to illuminate its participants’ creative paths, mixing music and conversation in an intimate, stripped-down setting. Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Wu Man, the Chinese pipa player performing on Friday at Symphony Space, in a concert presented by [...]