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."

Zurich Outdoors

Zurich is a city with a lot less character than its Alpine counterparts, but isn't entirely without its charms. Especially on a beautiful, clear day like today, where the whole

Montreaux = Music

The Montreaux Quai ED-Jaccoud, with the old pavilion on the right. Freddie Mercury statue – longtime resident of Montreaux – on the Pl. du Marche, on the lakefront. Miles Davis

Music Above the Clouds

I've been to concerts in a lot of out-of-the-way places, but I can't think of any that top the show I saw Friday night at the Berghotel Schynige Platte: an

The Other Lucerne Festival

Having arrived in Lucerne, Switzerland expecting to just take a quick look around before heading on to Zurich, I'm stopped in my tracks by an outdoor stage outside the KKL

At the Grave of Messiaen

The grave of Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in the Eglise Saint-Theoffrey, overlooking Lac de Petichet and Le Tabor. (See here and here for notes on my Messiaen trip through Paris,