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."

Part-Time Virtuosi

It`s no fluke that the MET Orchestra - the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera – has established itself as one of […]

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ACL Friday Pics

Look, it takes awhile to go through 547 pictures, k? Setlists here.

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More Messiaen

I won't soon forget the experience earlier this year of hearing Loïc Mallié perform the earth-quaking music of Olivier Messiaen

Street Music

Leaving Williamsburg late on a Wednesday night, I'm dismayed at having just missed a G train back to Park Slope,

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Lenny

"I felt like I wasn't at all in control of what was happening out there, like I was conducting completely

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Back on the Ranch

Ah, it's good to be home.

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Headin’ Home

In Austin, you even get music while waiting for your plane to board. See you back in NYC.

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Call It

When your brother offers you dinner at Romeo's and a ride back to your car a mile up a steep

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Two Reds are Better than One

I don't know what it is about Neko Case. Maybe it's the way she looks skyward when she sings. The

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