Ring Wrap
Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera "Every now and then the creative impulse of man suddenly erupts and produces something so extraordinary, so incalculable, that from the moment it comes into being […]
In C @ 45
"Climaxes of great sonority and high complexity appear and are dissolved into the endlessness. At times you feel you have never done anything all your life long but listen to
High Time
It took 45 years for Terry Riley's In C to make it to Carnegie Hall, but if Kronos Quartet founder/concert organizer David Harrington is to be believed, tonight's performance should be
Club Symphony
Michael Gordon's Trance, an hour-long work for acoustic and electronic orchestra, was rocked by Signal tonight in the middle of the Le Poisson Rouge floor. It starts out with Gordon's
Get Bent
The Tank's annual Bent Festival – similar to December's Blip Festival – invites hackers and composers to reconfigure electronic toys through circuit bending, creating a strange, often exciting form of
Siegfried
From left: James Morris (Wanderer/Wotan), Wendy White (Erda), Otto Schenk (director), James Levine, Christian Franz (Siegfried) and Iréne Theorin (Brunnhilde.) More cast photos below.