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."

Atomic Redux

The second of the St. Louis Symphony’s concerts last weekend at Carnegie was full of dark, somber music: Brahms Tragic Overture, Berg’s Violin Concerto (with the formidable Christian Tetzlaff), and

Here’s Jonny

P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is up for a total of 8 Oscars next weekend, including Best Picture. However, Jonny Greenwood’s music, taken largely from Popcorn Superhet Receiver, was

Love Song

I got a healthy dose of conductor David Robertson’s pedagogic prowess last month at the Concrete Frequency festival in L.A., where he offered straightforward, humor-laced intros to works by Berio,

No Handstamp Required

"I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the

I <3 Barbes

I was without plans this Valentine’s evening until I stopped into my beloved local Barbes, which offered up a big heart-shaped box of music by a pair of lady expats

It Ain’t Satan

My friend Jason clued me in to a show last night in the Meatpacking district by two brothers from Chicago who performed several renditions of Black Sabbath’s 1971 track "Into

I’m a Toddler

One year ago today, I wrote my first Feast of Music entry, about a concert I’d heard the night before at Carnegie by the Minnesota Orchestra. In the 258 posts

Old World/New Orchestra

Going to see a concert in Central Europe is generally a more sociable, more amiable experience than it is here in America. In Prague, for example, everyone dresses up –

My Kind of Grammys

Best Banda Album Te Va A GustarEl Chapo Best Native American Music Album Totemic Flute ChantsJohnny Whitehorse Best Polka Album Come Share The WineJimmy Sturr And His Orchestra (that makes

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