Music Reviews: Performers celebrated the forward-looking innovator who expands his canvas to embrace the globe.

Music Reviews: Summertime has become the make-or-break time slot for bands who toil in the indie rock arena.

Music Reviews: Rihanna spent far more time on the trappings than the arrangements of the songs delivered.

Music Reviews: Over the past few years, Arcade Fire has experienced one of the more spectacular growth spurts that rock has seen in ages, leapfrogging several steps on the trek from clubs to arenas and scaling the charts with an alacrity that's all but unheard of in the indie ranks.

Music Reviews: Dudamel can freshen even the most overplayed standards in the outdoor repertoire.

Music Reviews: Gustavo Dudamel pulls opera out of the slog of routine into something really special and thrilling.

Music Reviews: Newsom's 95-min recital welcomed the audience into her eccentric world like a gracious dinner host.

Music Reviews: Blessed with a deep warmth that belies her music's sprawling complexity, Newsom's superlative 95-minute recital welcomed the audience into her eccentric world like a gracious dinner host.

Music Reviews: Band delivered with the proper blend of urgency and plaintiveness.

Music Reviews: The Bowl's Mozart-interpreter-of-choice these days is Nicholas McGegan, who ventured a bit off the reservation Tuesday.