Jamie Lidell and the Brooklyn United Marching Band at Brooklyn Bridge Park
It's still a couple of weeks until Celebrate Brooklyn! officially kicks off it's 37th season at the Prospect Park Bandshell, but the folks at BRIC are already warming up the
A Celebration of the Composer with the American Composers Orchestra
by Robert Leeper George Manahan, Photo Credit: Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images Organizations that further the careers of young composers are plentiful these days, but the American Composers Orchestra takes its support a step
Coffee Conversation: Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington
For anyone who cares at all about the living art of music, there is no more vital institution than the Kronos Quartet. Since their founding 41 years ago, this indefatigable
Sonatas from the Soviet Era at SubCulture
by Christina Klessig Last week, pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn and violist Hsin-Yun Huang presented an intimate concert at Subculture entitled “Sonatas from the Soviet Era.” Solzhenitsyn, the son of Nobel Prize winning dissident Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, began with Sergei
Gerald Clayton Trio at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
by Nick Stubblefield The Gerald Clayton Trio played a dynamic and thoughtful set of what Clayton called "originals, arrangements, and de-rangements" last Tuesday at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Lincoln Center
Vijay Iyer Trio at The Jazz Standard
by Nick Stubblefield Photo by Stephen Pisano In his still-young career, Vijay Iyer has amassed an impressive set of credentials, and is known for pushing creative boundaries beyond what's generally accepted
Julia Wolfe Wins the Pulitzer Prize for “Anthracite Fields”
Somehow, I missed last week's announcement that Julia Wolfe, co-founder of Bang on a Can, won this year's Pulitzer Prize for her oratorio Anthracite Fields, inspired by the coal miners near
Duke @116
Duke Ellington, who was born this day in 1899, was by any measure the greatest composer this country has ever produced. Over a career that spanned more than half of
Australian Chamber Orchestra at Zankel Hall
The chamber orchestra is a unique musical animal, combining the fleetness of a string quartet with the power of a full symphony orchestra. Once the standard performance ensemble of the