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."

Brooklyn Phil Gala at Steiner Studios

Last night, the Brooklyn Philharmonic held their annual gala at Steiner Studios, the former Brooklyn Navy Yard way out in the No man’s land between Clinton Hill and Williamsburg. These

Manuel Agujetas at CUNY Graduate Center

I've been fascinated by the world of flamenco ever since my 2010 visit to Andalucia in Spain, where I was overwhelmed by the intoxicating mix of impassioned singing, virtuosic guitar

For Herbert Breslin

 (Photo: Norman Lebrecht) "He was an old-fashioned music-biz rogue who came out of the motor industry and knew all the tricks of the trade. Many felt the lash of his

Dietrich

 "Schubert is, for me, the climax of the meeting between words and music, and this creates at the same time both the simplicity and the difficulties in his songs." –

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