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."

Take Two: Boston

 I wasn't really hankering for another orchestra concert the day after seeing the PSO in Pittsburgh, but when James Levine and the Boston Symphony come to town, I can hardly keep […]

Pound-For-Pound

 Considering the size of the city it inhabits (roughly 300,000), the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra can justly claim to being one of the best orchestras, pound-for-pound, in America, if not the

Pittsburgh Afro-Caribbean

 Pittsburgh spreads out along a peninsula surrounded by three rivers, growing more and more sparse the further you get from the point. About five miles in, you reach the DUMBO-like

Pittsburgh

 I'll be in Pittsburgh, PA this weekend, visiting old friends and catching up on some of the cultural happenings – musical and otherwise – along the banks of the Three

Staying Home

 I didn't have any major musical ventures this past week, opting to stay local and play host to some friends at my favorite watering hole/music spot: Barbès. Which isn't at all

Grade: C

 As someone who works in advertising, I've gotta say I'm not a fan of Carnegie's new branding campaign, which consists of slapping a big red C over everything they publish:

The Week in Pics

Some additional music happenings seen this past week: Violinist/composer Tom Swafford: the best thing that ever happened to Park Slope's rush hour. 1/21/10 Nate Schweber (of the New Heathens) performing solo at Banjo Jim's:

Voices Carry

 This week's big diva explosion may be uptown, but for true vocal ability, last night's double bill at Bowery Ballroom was hard to beat. Toronto's Basia Bulat played a rootsy solo set,

The Art of Teaching

  Over the past fifteen years, I can't even count how many times I've seen James Levine conduct, both at the Met and the Boston Symphony. But, for all those performances, I've never

Scroll to Top