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."

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I'm out in Williamsburg tonight for the annual Armory Show Brooklyn Night, where galleries throw open their doors with the lure of free beer, wine, and other treats in the […]

Turn It Up

For most of its history, Alice Tully Hall has been known as a destination for polite evenings of chamber and classical music. But, every so often, the new music set

Opium Den Bluegrass

It's not every day you find a string band playing in the basement of a Chinese restaurant, but that's exactly where the M Shanghai String Band holds court each month

Hither Dither

Guitars play chords. Which means when you put four of them together, as local guitar quartet Dither did at The Flea this past Monday, you get an almost endless range

Vienna

The first time I saw the Vienna Philharmonic was on a snowy Monday in January, 2003. I had flown into Vienna earlier that morning, and after a day spent wandering

Gold Standard

Vienna Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, 3/1/09. More to come.

Mixed Stage

Brooklyn Philharmonic with Bell Orchestre and Clogs (and Sufjan Stevens and Shara Worden), BAM, 2/26/09 (More pics below.)

Not a Broomstick

Story goes that one day, Emily Hope Price was at her apartment up in Washington Heights when she heard a loud banging coming through the floor above. When she stuck her

A New Beginning

Pretty much the entire New York music world showed up at Lincoln Center Sunday night for the re-opening of Alice Tully Hall, the oft-maligned chamber music hall that's faced Avery

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