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."

Less Than a Pint of Beer

For the unbelievable price of $5, you can purchase the best seat in the house to what promises to be a stirring performance at Carnegie Hall tomorrow night. The concert […]

New York Music on Myspace

The classical music world may have been a bit late to the MySpace party, but a quick search today revealed a few surprises that might be of interest to local

Audrey Chen @ Issue Project Room

Ventured over to local new music venue Issue Project Room last night to see cellist and vocalist Audrey Chen perform her haunting, often beautiful music before an intimate crowd. She

The Russians are Coming

Full house at Avery Fisher on Tuesday night to see the Russian National Orchestra with their exciting young Guest Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski. The RNO was founded in 1990 by pianist/conductor

A Really Cheap Seat

Yet another innovation from Mr. Gelb at the Met: flat screen TV’s in the lobby. This isn’t really anything new – I watched a good bit of a Robert Wilson

Ligeti @ the Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic offers their first performance of Gyorgy Ligeti’s Violin Concerto this week with German violinist Christian Tetzlaff. For those of you unfamiliar with Ligeti, he’s the guy

MATA Festival Comes to Brooklyn

More good music making it’s way to Brooklyn: the 9th annual MATA Festival of New Music will be held next week at the Brooklyn Lyceum. MATA was founded in 1996

Sad News From New Jersey

According to Dan Wakin in today’s Times, the NJSO is planning to sell off their Golden Collection of 30 rare stringed instruments, which I had the chance to hear just

Both Hands

A packed house at the People’s Symphony last night to see the venerable pianist Leon Fleisher in recital. For those of you unfamiliar with Fleisher’s story: he was on his

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