The summer may have unofficially ended on Labor Day weekend, but with a delayed reopening to live music thanks to COVID, things are still going strong here in NYC into […]
Weekend Live Music Preview: 9/17-9/19 Read Post »
Acoustics are a funny thing. In most concert halls, you hear the instruments in your head in relation to their position on the stage, regardless of where you sit: violins
EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Opens TIME:SPANS Festival at the DiMenna Center Read Post »
STOCKBRIDGE, Massachusetts – On a fairly unremarkable Tuesday in March 2020, I decided at the last minute to go see the NY Phil and Louis Langrée perform a concert at
The Boston Symphony Orchestra Returns to Live Performance at Tanglewood Read Post »
Louis Andriessen following the world premiere of Agamemnon at the New York Philharmonic, October 2018 Less than a week following the death of Frederic Rzewski, on Thursday we lost
Louis Andriessen (1939-2021) Read Post »
(Frederic Rzewski performing The People United Shall Never Be Defeated! at 2017's Big Ears Festival) De mortuis nihil nisi bonum ("Don't speak ill of the dead") – Chilon of Sparta
Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021) Read Post »
Almost impossible to believe, but it was a year ago today that I saw my last live concert: the NY Philharmonic with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and conductor Louis Langrée. From
"Music is not really a job, it’s something that the more you practice in it and work in it, the more interesting it becomes. My activities are the result of
John Williams Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein Read Post »
From August 27, 1986 at New Haven's Veterans Memorial Coliseum. So glad I got to see "Frankenstein" and Eddie's rig up close at the Met Museum last year.
(Photo: Sabrina Santiago, The New York Times) Well, it's been a minute. First and foremost, I hope everyone out there is hanging in, staying safe and sane. But, I won't
Music in the Time of COVID: Christian Sands and Ashley Bathgate Read Post »
