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."

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

Sessions of New York

This might not be Ireland, but on any given night, you can find one (or more) quality trad sessions right here in the grand City of New York. Each has

Salon deLancey

Paul Wallfisch (above) is a pianist and producer best known as the leader of gypsy-punk outfit Botanica. He is also the impresario behind the post-cabaret night Small Beast, held each Thursday in the upstairs

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