John Cage 102nd Birthday Celebration at Wild Project
by Robert Leeper Two years ago, there was a parade of concerts in celebration of John Cage’s 100th birthday. Avant Media’s response: Why keep it to centennials and decades? And so,
Coffee Conversation: Maya Beiser
Cellist Maya Beiser wants to change the way people look at rock music. Or, more accurately, music in general. Raised in Israel, Beiser was groomed for a career as a concert
Mostly Mozart Concludes with Mozart’s Requiem
by Angela Sutton Lincoln Center photo With a partially apt, partially grim choice of programming, Saturday's final concert of this year's Mostly Mozart Festival began with a melding of works by
ICE Ends Their Mostly Mozart Run with Mixed Program
by Emre Tetik Armen Elliot for The New York Times For the third time this week, the International Contemporary Ensemble (a.k.a., ICE) appeared at the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers
Saturday in Long Island City: Kevin Saunderson at PS1/Small Black at The Lot LIC
After a roundabout subway trip from Brooklyn due to the out of service G Train, I found myself in a vacant lot in the shadow of Long Island City's Citibank
Steve Schick Performs John Luther Adams at Mostly Mozart
Among the orchestras, new music ensembles and violinists all taking part in this final week of Mostly Mozart, there was percussionist Steve Schick, who I first encountered during his Miller Theatre
Mostly Mozart: Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Bach, Bartok, and Enescu
by Robert Leeper As if to provide a soundtrack to the lightning storm crackling just outside the windows of the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse last night, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja dug into the
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with David Zinman
by Emre Tetik Richard Termine for The New York Times The Mostly Mozart Festival, now in its final few days, has offered NYC a variety
Gotham Chamber Opera Steadfastly Carries On
by Robert Leeper With the crumbling of New York City Opera last year and the recent labor-related histrionics from the Met, it would seem that opera in our fair city