Slam Donahue at Soho House
by Laura Wasson It isn’t often you get to hear dirty pop rock at an exceptionally posh Manhattan hot spot, but Slam Donahue's Wednesday night performance at Soho House melded the two seemingly disparate
Little Dragon/Frankie Rose/Voices of Black Close Out Celebrate Brooklyn
By Jonathan Rosado The people running Celebrate Brooklyn's electro-dance extravaganza on Friday had one thing to say to the potential rainstorm that threatened their festivities: bring it on. By the
Third Coast Percussion Hammers Cage at MoMA
by Angela Sutton Third Coast Percussion dodged the raindrops at MoMA on Thursday night, presenting a mostly John Cage concert in honor of the composer's centenary and his 1943 MoMA percussion
Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - It's racing season up here in Saratoga, and with it comes the return of the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, where they have performed
Garrick Ohlsson with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Wednesday night's concert by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall was a microcosm of what the Mostly Mozart Festival has become under directors Jane Moss and Louis
Grand Band at (Le) Poisson Rouge
by Andreas Hager What happens when six pianists walk into a bar? Grand Band's performance Tuesday night at (Le) Poisson Rouge was a chance to find out. Once upon a time
Pablo Ziegler and Lara St. John Play Piazzolla at Naumburg Bandshell
Nearly twenty-five years to the day, Ziegler returned to the bandshell last night to recreate that famous concert before a crowd of over 1,000, with thousands more listening on WQXR. Joining
Mostly Mozart: Chamber Orchestra of Europe and International Contemporary Ensemble
The Mostly Mozart Festival continued this past Sunday with a pair of concerts not necessarily intended to go together, but doable as a double, at least for those with comfortable shoes.
For Marvin Hamlisch
"It’s easy to write things that are so self-conscious that they become pretentious, that have a lot of noise. It’s very hard to write a simple melody.”