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."

Magnus Lindberg @ Baryshnikov Arts Center

A thrilling – and free – recital last night at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, with Finnish composer and pianst Magnus Lindberg (the NY Phil's current composer-in-residence), violinist Jennifer Koh and cellist

Indie Orchestra

On any given Saturday in night in New York, there are a surfeit of musical options to choose from: everything from arena-size rock and pop concerts, to clubs playing the

MATA and VOX 2011

 Two major events settle in NYC this week, turning the spotlight on the music of young and up-and-coming composers. Starting tonight is the 12th edition of the MATA Festival, and

Carnegie @ 120

While most folks were swigging back Coronas and 'Ritas last Thursday for Cinco de Mayo, I was at Carnegie Hall for a celebration of a different sort: the 120th anniversary

Chiara Quartet and Matmos @ LPR

A great set in front of a packed house Friday night at LPR with the Chiara Quartet playing Jefferson Friedman's haunting, dystopic 3rd string quartet (last heard during the Ecstatic

A New Ring

  I first encountered Wagner's four-opera epic The Ring of the Nibelung in June 1990, when PBS broadcast the Met's then-new Otto Schenk production on four consecutive nights (as Wagner had originally intended.) It

Die Walküre

Metropolitan Opera, 4/28/11. More pics here.More thoughts tomorrow.  

Easter

St. Joesph's Cathedral, Buffalo, NY.

Tenebrae

The Trinity Choir, performing the ancient rite of Tenebrae (including Allegri's Miserere), Trinity Church, 4/20/11.

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