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."

Bklyn sounds

Out tonight at local hang Southpaw, a free show sponsored by AM New York. Mostly not worth mentioning, but one band – The Attorneys – plays with confidence and presence,

Sweet Sorrow

Last night, Alice Tully Hall was double-marked by a sense of passing. On the one hand, the Vermeer Quartet, the excellent Chicago-based ensemble that has played together for nearly 40

Float Like a Butterfly…

I was persuaded to take time out from a busy week at work to attend City Opera’s Wednesday night performance of Madam Butterfly by two primary factors. One, was that

Saxophone Colossi

Not really sure what to expect from a group made up entirely of saxophones, I braved the Nor’easter and wandered down to Barbes Classical last night to catch Amsterdam’s Amstel

Goode Stuff

Speaking of the rat race, I got caught up in it myself last night, waiting over an hour at the Verizon Wireless store on Union Square for a replacement phone,

Music in the Rat Race

I woke up this morning just in time to hear an interview on WNYC with Gene Weingarten, the Washington Post journalist who recently recruited Joshua Bell to play in a

Let the Hype Begin

Anthony Tommasini has a piece in today’s Times about the ongoing search for Lorin Maazel’s successor at the Philharmonic, written in the context of the recent goings-on in L.A. Frankly,

Finnish Fireworks

While Esa-Pekka Salonen may be hogging the headlines among conductors these days, another Finn, Sakari Oramo, has been quietly making waves of his own on concert stages across America and

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