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."

Floating

After Lightning at our feet, I wandered down to the new Galapagos in DUMBO for a late-night triple bill of indie and new music. The cavernous space is beautiful to […]

Poetry in Light

 (photo courtesy of NewYork Times) "Stiller – than the fields At the full Dew – Beautiful – as Pictures – No man drew" (from I went to Heaven)  The first

Two Quartets

12/10/08, 7:30pm: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, performed by the Sofia Ensemble, Chelsea Art Museum 12/10/08, 9:15pm Brooklyn Rider performing Finnish and Armenian folk tunes, as well as

Elliott: 100

There have been centenarian composers before Elliott Carter: Irving Berlin, Nicolas Slonimsky, Leo Ornstein. But, none were still writing into their 100th year, nor have any of them had anything

Olivier: 100

For those looking to hear Messiaen's music in New York tonight, the Church of the Ascension on 5th Ave and 10th St. has the Quartet for the End of Time

Brooklyn Sounds

Now in it's third year, BAM's Sounds Like Brooklyn music festival (formerly known as Brooklyn Next) will feature the borough's best indie, jazz, hip-hop, brass band, and everything in between.

R.I.P. Kuntry Karaoke

  For the past three years, Hank's Saloon hosted the best (or worst) start of the week in the city: Monday night's Kuntry Karaoke, complete with live band and lubrication

Blip Bleep

I wandered down to Gowanus' Bell House tonight for the 3rd annual Blip Festival, devoted to the emerging 8-bit scene: an electronica sub-genre which uses modified Gameboys, Commodore 64's and other game

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