“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”

Nedra Talley (later Nedra Talley Ross) around 1970. The Ronettes, the trio in which she was joined by two of her cousins, helped define the producer Phil Spector’s revolutionary “wall of sound.”

Brad Arnold, center, performing with 3 Doors Down at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 2017, in honor of Donald J. Trump’s first inauguration.

“I think it’s fun,” he said of the interest in the song’s drumbeat. “It sort of made me rethink how long the pause is.”

Mike León, from Guanajuato, and Brian Sebastián Muñoz, from Los Angeles, during their performance in the final of Mexico Canta on Sunday.

“The Life of a Showgirl” serves as an implicit capstone to Taylor Swift’s career to date, as several significant narratives come to a conclusion.

Max Martin, a pop producer and songwriter who’s worked with Adele, Katy Perry, Backstreet Boys, Ariana Grande and many more, collaborated with Taylor Swift on some of her biggest hits.

Terry Reid in performance in 1973. During his prime, in the late 1960s and the ’70s, his powerful vocal stylings were compared favorably to the likes of Rod Stewart.

On Friday, Taylor Swift said her record-breaking Eras Tour helped make possible her acquisition of the rights to her first six albums.

“I’ve been gathering tunes for this since the last time we recorded,” Alison Krauss said of Union Station’s latest album.

Antônio Meneses in 2007. He was “an artist like few others,” said the pianist Menahem Pressler, with whom he performed in the Beaux Arts Trio.