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."

Hilary Hahn @ Carnegie

Last night, I went to see Hilary Hahn at Carnegie with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, a local chamber orchestra which plays an annual subscription series. It was a spur-of-the-moment

Brooklyn Next

BAM’s presenting a major music/arts festival this weekend and next in my favorite borough, highlighting "Brooklyn legends, emerging bands, and solo artists from Brownsville to Brighton Beach." You can read

Peter Sellars on The Crisis

Henry Fogel, the President of the American Symphony Orchestra League and the former President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has an occasional blog, On the Record, which offers an establishment

Minnesota Dreaming

Greetings online world! Finally, I’m sitting down to write my long-intended blog, on which I hope to post my impressions of some of the extraordinary musical happenings here in New