Maria Schneider Orchestra at Jazz Standard
by FoM It's become something of a Thanksgiving tradition of mine to go see the Maria Schneider Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, where she's appeared each year this week for
Esa-Pekka Salonen Leads Masterful “Wozzeck” at Avery Fisher Hall
by Michael Cirigliano II Photo credit: Jennifer Taylor, The New York Times It’s nice to see that Alban Berg’s infamous 1922 opera, Wozzeck, hasn’t lost much of its shock value
White Light Festival: Adam’s Lament
by Michael Cirigliano II After performing a concert of modern Baltic music in Midtown Friday night, the Latvian Radio Choir made their way uptown to Alice Tully Hall on Saturday,
Oregon Symphony Performs Mahler’s Sixth Symphony
PORTLAND, OR — With one of the country's most robust live music scenes, one could forgive Portland for slacking a bit when it comes to the orchestral arts. In fact,
The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir Present All-Beethoven Program
by Michael Cirigliano II Very few musicologists have been able to promote their scholarship in such a way that alters the perspective of modern musical performance quite like Sir John
John Cage’s “How to Get Started” at Symphony Space
by Craig Brinker Of the many strange works John Cage composed during his long and varied career, “How to Get Started” is not the most experimental, but perhaps one of
“What Must Be Said” at The Cell
by Angela Sutton Ensemble π performed to a full house at the Cell on Saturday night, presenting new and rarely heard music in collaboration with the Great Small Works theater company. “What
The Fonda/Stevens Group at 92YTribeca
by Craig Brinker Photo Credit: Manfred Kiesant The Fonda/Stevens Group played a searching, searing set of improvisatory music Saturday night at 92YTribeca, a collective exploration of the tunes, the relationships between
Elliott
As I've mentioned in the past, New Yorkers got into the ridiculous habit in recent years of expecting to see Elliott Carter out at concerts, long after most of us would be