Author name: Peter Matthews

Feast of Music covers live music in NYC, and occasionally other places. Launched in 2007, it aspires to give equal voice to all kinds of music: everything from an indie show in a Williamsburg dive, to an orchestra concert in Carnegie Hall. As Duke Ellington once said: "There are only two kinds of music: good music...and the other kind."

The Joshua Light Festival

by Andreas Hager   The fall season begins with something completely different: The Joshua Light Show will be at NYU's Skirball Center from September 13-16. Since the 1960s, the group

Steve Reich Complete Quartets Tonight at LPR

One of the most haunting musical compositions in recent memory, Steve Reich's WTC 9/11, will be performed tonight at Le Poisson Rouge by ACME, in a new all-live version for three

Take Five

It's time for a little hiatus here at FoM while we collect ourselves and work on some updates in preparation for the fall. See you in a couple of weeks.

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival 2012

Part of the reason I never made it into last Sunday's Afropunk Fest was that I first went to check out the 20th edition of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

Afropunk Festival 2012

Let's start with the positives: last weekend's Afropunk Fest brought together one of the most heterogeneous audiences I've ever seen for two days of live music, skateboarding, and other diversions in

Mostly Mozart Festival 2012 Finale

Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with the Concert Chorale of New York, Avery Fisher Hall, 8/24/12 Martin Fröst, Shai Wosner and Lisette Oropesa, Kaplan Penthouse, 8/24/12 More pics on the photo

Mostly Mozart Festival: Mark Morris’ Dido and Aeneas

______________________________________________________ There are many miraculous things about Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas, currently running at the Rose Theater as part of this year's ongoing Mostly Mozart Festival. Created during Morris' residency at

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