Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.

Clarinetist Anthony McGill was playing a pleasantly intimate recital Thursday night at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, when he let his accompanist play a solo. Something about “Moonlight.” ...

Gene “Daddy G” Barge, an admired and durable saxophone player, songwriter and producer who worked on hits by Natalie Cole, ...