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."

Happy Easter

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 4/12/09. More pics below.

MacBook Phil

Take four percussionists, eight MacBooks, and a pair of electronic pranksters, put it all together, and you get a hot mess of sound that falls somewhere between computer music and

Round 2

Die Walküre, Metropolitan Opera, 4/11/09

Great Friday

Thanks to my office being closed for Good Friday, I'm spending the day with music. At noon, St. Paul's offered a jazz quintet with a singer playing spirituals and Coltrane,

In the Moment

There's this thing that happens when a concert begins – when the music is light and gentle and penetrating – when you suddenly find yourself living completely in the moment. Time and

Late Show

Admittedly, 11pm on a Tuesday isn't the best time to catch a show, but my friend Sean spoke so highly of My Education, I just had to suck it up. I'm

Tenebrae

Some routines are worth repeating: for the third year in a row, I found my way to Trinity Church – now only a five minute walk from work – for

Moving

So, having attended two of the MATA Festival concerts last week at Le Poisson Rouge, it would seem that there certain partisans of new music who would prefer that it

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