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ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’SA free Naumburg Orchestral Concerts of pieces by Flor- ence Price, Anna Clyne and others. 7 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El. naumburgconcerts.org.

MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRAThe ensemble debuts material created for a coming album. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz Standard. jazzstandard.com.

‘BE MORE CHILL’The cult favorite musical closes on Broadway on Aug. 11. 7 p.m. at the Lyceum Theater. bemorechillmusical.com.

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‘Old Town Road’ Sets

Billboard Singles Mark

The longest-running No. 1 single
in the 61-year history of Bill-
board’s Hot 100 chart is not by
Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Mi-
chael Jackson or Madonna.
And no longer is that record
held by “One Sweet Day” by
Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men,
from 1995, or “Despacito,” the
2017 Latin smash by Luis Fonsi,
with Daddy Yankee and Justin
Bieber — both of which held the
top spot for 16 weeks.
The new champion is as much
a novelty song as it is a meme
and an object lesson in the state
of music marketing: Lil Nas X’s
“Old Town Road,” which — after
its latest blast of remixes and
videos — on Monday notched its
17th week atop Billboard’s flag-
ship singles chart.
In its latest week, “Old Town
Road” had 72.5 million streams
in the United States and was
played 7,200 times on the radio,
according to Nielsen. Although
the song’s lead has been slipping
in recent weeks — Billie Eilish’s
“Bad Guy” had 51 million
streams last week, and twice as
many radio plays as “Old Town
Road” — it was enough to lead
Lil Nas X (above right) to a
historic run.
Since it first topped the chart
in April, “Old Town Road” has
consistently blocked new songs
by chart giants like Taylor Swift,
Ed Sheeran, Eilish and Shawn
Mendes from reaching No. 1.
And the song has been a per-
vasive cultural phenomenon for
much of the year, with an endless
series of online memes — many
generated by Lil Nas X himself

— and in-real-life moments that have then spread across social media. In May, for example, the rapper stirred up a gym full of Ohio schoolchildren; last week, the song even made its way into a Blondie set. In one sign of the song’s status as a classic one-hit wonder, “Old Town Road” continued to rule the singles chart even as Lil Nas X’s debut collection, an eight-song EP called “7,” was a relative dud. It opened at No. 2 — bested by Jack White’s Raconteurs — five weeks ago and has hovered in the Top 5 since. This week “7” holds at No. 4 on Billboard’s album chart. Also on this week’s album chart, Ed Sheeran’s “No. 6 Col- laborations Project” is No. 1 for a second week, and “The Lion King: The Gift,” executive produced and featuring Beyoncé, opens at No. 2. Eilish’s “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” is No. 3, and J. Cole’s “Revenge of the Dreamers III” project is in fifth place. BEN SISARIO

Sam Gilliam’s Star

Ascends in New York Sam Gilliam (left), the abstract artist who rose to prominence in

the 1960s with his large-scale draped canvas paintings, will join Pace Gallery’s roster of artists, the gallery announced Monday. It will be the first time in the 85-year-old painter’s long career that he will be represented by a New York gallery. Considered a master in the third wave of Color Field paint- ers, Gilliam has spent much of his career in Washington, where he first started to experiment with unsupported canvases. His signature draped and beveled- edge paintings, which are sus- pended from the ceiling or stretched across beveled frames, were considered a radical re-

imagining of the medium. In 1972, he became the first black artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. Yet, despite his early success, Gilliam has never been represented by a New York gallery. Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, attributed that to the artist’s nonconformist sensi- bility, saying the artist has “re- ally steered his own career and steered it clear of what we know as the art market.” “He’s had many, many oppor- tunities,” Glimcher said. “He didn’t want it and I think, I hope, it was that he was waiting for the right moment to show his work

in broader venues.” In recent years, Gilliam has enjoyed somewhat of a renais- sance, thanks in part to the Los Angeles-based art dealer David Kordansky, who started repre- senting Gilliam after visiting his studio in 2012. The acceleration in attention has also brought more lucrative auction sales for the painter. Last June, a large-scale beveled-edge work called “Forth” sold for $1.16 million at Sotheby’s London. The sale beat Gilliam’s past record of $885,000, for an untitled work that was auctioned in March 2018 at Sotheby’s New York. “There are few artists who change the course of possibilities in painting,” Glimcher said, “and he’s one of them.” LAUREN MESSMAN

Scorsese Movie

Will Open Festival For the first time in its history, the New York Film Festival will open with a Martin Scorsese movie. Organizers announced Monday that the director’s latest work, “The Irishman,” will have its world premiere at the 57th edition of the festival. With the movie, the New York filmmaker returns to a period- crime narrative, starring three of the actors who have helped shape epic American gangster tales for decades: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Based on Charles Brandt’s non- fiction book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the film stars De Niro as the labor union official Frank Sheeran, who worked alongside Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). Pesci (far left with De Niro) plays the mob boss Russell Bufalino. De Niro is reportedly playing Sheeran over several decades and has been “de-aged” with special effects. “I greatly admire the bold and visionary selections that the festival presents to audiences year after year,” Scorsese said in a statement. “The festival is critical to bringing awareness to cinema from around the world.” This big-budget drama is the director’s first for Netflix, which will release the film in select theaters and on its service this fall. The New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, will run from Sept. 27 to Oct. 13. MEKADO MURPHY

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