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."

Bowery Big Band

You don’t expect composer-bandleaders to show up for gigs wearing brown hoodies and jeans, but that’s how Darcy James Argue showed up Sunday night at the Bowery Poetry Club to […]

Beethoven’s 237th

Beethoven was (probably) born on this day in 1770. WNYC’s Overnight Music is celebrating by playing all nine symphonies in a row; you can catch the webstream here. (They’re on

(Much)More Than You’d Expect

Composers aren’t supposed to have mohawks. Or tattoos. Or play cello. But Pat Muchmore had/did all three last night, at a concert of his music by convention-busting new music group

Miami Music

My friend Liz and I spent this past weekend at the sixth annual Art Basel Miami Beach, which, with it’s more than 20 satellite fairs, has grown into the largest

This Week’s Concerts

Tonight, I’ll be up at Carnegie to see James Levine with the BSO in an all-French program including the NY premiere of Henri Dutillieux’s Le Temps l’Horloge, for soprano and

This Is New York

Last night was one of those evenings that makes me happy to live in New York. After a frustrating day spent waiting four hours for a mover to come take

Something Old, Something New…

On my way home from watching Gustavo Dudamel’s debut last night with the New York Philharmonic, I found myself unexpectedly depressed. Not because his performance wasn’t thrilling, or didn’t live

Off The Grid

After another late night at work, I took the L train to Williamsburg tonight to a raw space called Death By Audio, located on S. 2nd between Kent and Wythe.

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