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."

FREE TICKETS: 311 at Pier 97 (CONTEST ENDED)

NOTE: This contest has ended. This Saturday, July 19 at 5:00 p.m., alt-rockers 311 head to Hudson River Park's Pier 97 in promotion of their latest album, Stereolithic, and FoM is giving away

Lorin as Composer

There are lots of great interviews with Lorin Maazel online, but this one – shot by the Philharmonia Orchestra while riding the London Eye – gets into his life as

The Passenger at the Park Avenue Armory

The Passenger at the Park Avenue Armory

by Robert Leeper The New York premiere of Mieczyslaws Weinberg’s “The Passenger” came to the Park Avenue Armory last week, courtesy of the Houston Grand Opera and the Lincoln Center Festival.

One More for Lorin

For those who never got to see Lorin Maazel up close with the NY Phil, here's a bit from a 2008 concert in Japan, on the same tour that brought

Lorin

Has any American conductor ever had a more astonishing career than Lorin Maazel, who passed away this morning at the age of 84? Following his debut at the age of 9

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