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."

Feast of Music Turns Seven

Seven years ago today, Feast of Music was launched with a review of—of all things—the Minnesota Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Osmo Vänskä. (I liked it.) Back then, FoM was

Sasha Cooke with Greenwich Village Orchestra

by Angela Sutton The Greenwich Village Orchestra brought a bit of fantasy to relieve a gloomy February Sunday this past weekend at Washington Irving Auditorium, in the form of Ravel's song

Arjun Plays Rockwood Music Hall

 by Kira Brekke Since 2003, progressive rock and improv group ARJUN has been fusing these two unexpected genres together in the most fluid of ways. Needless to say, this instrumental-only

Sasha Cooke in Recital at Alice Tully Hall

by Caitlin Kelley Photo credit: Rikki Cooke Every so often a performer emerges whose genuine conviction and artistry inspires the audience to contemplate the beauty and complexity of the human

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