Bobby Mcferrin

Our quarterback's wife, Gisele Bundchen , was spotted around Boston in her gym clothes… . "Modern Family" star Sofia Vergara was spotted lunching at 29 Newbury on Saturday and later having dinner at Strega Waterfront… . Bobby McFerrin had a bite at Legal Sea Foods in the Pru… . Red Sox masterminds Terry Francona , John Henry , and third base coach Tim Bogar were spotted over the weekend at Del Frisco's.

The Museum of Fine Arts' 24-hour party to celebrate the opening of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art was a marathon of entertainment with live music, moving art, guests in sparkling attire, and a line to see Christian Marclay 's video piece, "The Clock," that stretched around the museum's second floor. Channel 5's Bianca de la Garza was seen mingling by the galleries while WGBH's Jared Bowen , Emily Rooney , and Frannie Carr took in the bands. Celtics co-owner Bob Epstein and his wife, Esta , praised the clock, which Esta said she saw at the...

ST. LOUIS -- Robert McFerrin Sr., the first black man to sing solo at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the father of Grammy-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 85. In 1953, Mr. McFerrin won the Metropolitan Opera national auditions. His 1955 debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Amonasro in "Aida" made him the first black man in the company. He performed in 10 operas over three seasons. He appeared three weeks after contralto Marian Anderson made her historic debut as the first black person to sing a principal role at the Metropolitan Opera.

Our quarterback's wife, Gisele Bundchen , was spotted around Boston in her gym clothes… . "Modern Family" star Sofia Vergara was spotted lunching at 29 Newbury on Saturday and later having dinner at Strega Waterfront… . Bobby McFerrin had a bite at Legal Sea Foods in the Pru… . Red Sox masterminds Terry Francona , John Henry , and third base coach Tim Bogar were spotted over the weekend at Del Frisco's.

"This is my choir," sang Imogen Heap and the multiple synth-voiced Imogens that materialized through the sound system between songs as she gave the audience a tour of her stage Saturday at Avalon. "I play them with my fingers," she/they continued, referring to the keyboard Heap was using to create the effect. "They do what I say. " Except for some brief vocal feedback problems early on, disobedient music wasn't a concern. The layered electronic sounds were well under Heap's control as she crossed the performance art sound manipulation of Laurie Anderson with the openhearted romanticism...

It's appropriate that children helped inspire several tunes on Wynton Marsalis's new CD, "The Magic Hour," a swinging little grab bag of stripped-down playfulness that comes out today. The recording marks something of a rebirth for the trumpet superstar. The CD is his first for Blue Note Records and his first since parting ways (for jazz recordings, at any rate) with Columbia/Sony after a two-decade run that produced more than 30 jazz albums, several classical ones, nine Grammy Awards, and jazz's first Pulitzer Prize.

One of the most distinctive and dynamic choreographers to come out of Philadelphia is hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris, and other than his own troupe, who better to step to his lively urban beat than Philadanco, one of the city's cultural treasures for the past 38 years. Under the direction of founder Joan Myers Brown, this company has talent, chutzpah, and energy to burn. Harris's "Philadelphia Experiment" was the highlight of Philadanco's sold-out Boston debut at the ICA Friday night.

Our children won’t believe it when we tell them that we lived through those benighted years before the arrival of functional MRI scans, when conductors just gave downbeats, and rock stars just crooned. These days, both do so with their brain activity closely monitored. Babies have been wired up, stories of musical “brainworms’’ have made the bestseller list, Yo-Yo Ma has performed with videos taken from brain scans. In short, research in the neuroscience of music is booming and it seems to be everywhere.

Most of the world knows Bjork as the unusual Icelandic girl who wore an anatomically correct swan dress to the Oscars a few years ago. It was an intensely unsettling look and so is the image on the cover of Bjork's new album, "Medulla," where her hair is woven into a slick mask that ropes around her eyes and the letters of the album's title have been molded into black jewels that drip onto her ghostly chest. Truth be told, anyone who feels dazed and confused by her fashion sense is probably better off without Bjork's music.

The Museum of Fine Arts' 24-hour party to celebrate the opening of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art was a marathon of entertainment with live music, moving art, guests in sparkling attire, and a line to see Christian Marclay 's video piece, "The Clock," that stretched around the museum's second floor. Channel 5's Bianca de la Garza was seen mingling by the galleries while WGBH's Jared Bowen , Emily Rooney , and Frannie Carr took in the bands. Celtics co-owner Bob Epstein and his wife, Esta , praised the clock, which Esta said she saw...

Our children won’t believe it when we tell them that we lived through those benighted years before the arrival of functional MRI scans, when conductors just gave downbeats, and rock stars just crooned. These days, both do so with their brain activity closely monitored. Babies have been wired up, stories of musical “brainworms’’ have made the bestseller list, Yo-Yo Ma has performed with videos taken from brain scans. In short, research in the neuroscience of music is booming and it seems to be everywhere.

One of the most distinctive and dynamic choreographers to come out of Philadelphia is hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris, and other than his own troupe, who better to step to his lively urban beat than Philadanco, one of the city's cultural treasures for the past 38 years. Under the direction of founder Joan Myers Brown, this company has talent, chutzpah, and energy to burn. Harris's "Philadelphia Experiment" was the highlight of Philadanco's sold-out Boston debut at the ICA Friday night.

ST. LOUIS -- Robert McFerrin Sr., the first black man to sing solo at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the father of Grammy-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 85. In 1953, Mr. McFerrin won the Metropolitan Opera national auditions. His 1955 debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Amonasro in "Aida" made him the first black man in the company. He performed in 10 operas over three seasons. He appeared three weeks after contralto Marian Anderson made her historic debut as the first black person to sing a principal...

"This is my choir," sang Imogen Heap and the multiple synth-voiced Imogens that materialized through the sound system between songs as she gave the audience a tour of her stage Saturday at Avalon. "I play them with my fingers," she/they continued, referring to the keyboard Heap was using to create the effect. "They do what I say. " Except for some brief vocal feedback problems early on, disobedient music wasn't a concern. The layered electronic sounds were well under Heap's control as she crossed the performance art sound manipulation of Laurie Anderson with the...

Most of the world knows Bjork as the unusual Icelandic girl who wore an anatomically correct swan dress to the Oscars a few years ago. It was an intensely unsettling look and so is the image on the cover of Bjork's new album, "Medulla," where her hair is woven into a slick mask that ropes around her eyes and the letters of the album's title have been molded into black jewels that drip onto her ghostly chest. Truth be told, anyone who feels dazed and confused by her fashion sense is probably better off without Bjork's music.

It's appropriate that children helped inspire several tunes on Wynton Marsalis's new CD, "The Magic Hour," a swinging little grab bag of stripped-down playfulness that comes out today. The recording marks something of a rebirth for the trumpet superstar. The CD is his first for Blue Note Records and his first since parting ways (for jazz recordings, at any rate) with Columbia/Sony after a two-decade run that produced more than 30 jazz albums, several classical ones, nine Grammy Awards, and jazz's first Pulitzer Prize.

► Today is Sunday, March 11, the 71st day of 2012. There are 295 days left in the year. ► Today's birthdays: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is 81. ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson is 78. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is 76. Actress Tricia O'Neil is 67. Singer Bobby McFerrin is 62. Movie director Jerry Zucker is 62. Actress Susan Richardson is 60. Recording executive Jimmy Iovine is 59. Actor-director Peter Berg is 50. Actor Jeffrey...