Winter Jazzfest 2014: Revive Big Band with Bilal and Dr. Lonnie Smith
It was a bit of a late night last night at LPR, but Igmar Thomas' Revive Big Band (no website) made it worth the wait. Headlining the third of this week's
Preview: New York Guitar Festival—Pepe Romero Plays All-Bach Program Tonight
It is rare that a true legend is still around to share his or her gifts with the musical world, and even fewer have sustained that greatness and continued to
Yefim Bronfman and New York Philharmonic Triumph with Rouse, Lindberg, and Tchaikovsky
The NY Phil kicked off 2014 on the right foot this past week with an engaging, forward-leaning program that pretty much had something for everyone. Music Director Alan Gilbert, now in
Preview: Steve Schick Performs Solo Percussion at Miller Theater
Hard to believe, but before Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote Zyklus in 1959, there were no works for solo percussion. The tireless Steve Schick, who has emerged as this country's foremost pracitioner of solo
Preview: NY Phil and Yefim Bronfman Play Rouse, Lindberg, and Tchaikovsky Tonight
Photo credit: Hiroyuki Ito, The New York Times "I will say this: go to the New York Philharmonic to hear their concert on Tuesday night. Yes to Lindberg's concerto, YES to
FREE TICKETS: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Jazz Standard
NOTE: This contest has ended. Distinguished jazz guitarist/composer Kurt Rosenwinkel brings his New Quartet to Jazz Standard next week, and FoM is giving away a pair of free tickets to your choice
Trinity Church’s Twelfth Night Festival Gala Concert with Music by Britten and Wachner
As most New Yorkers know, the two weeks after Christmas are typically a dead time for NYC performing-arts organizations. But throughout music history, a great deal of music has been
Preview: Winter Jazzfest 2014
Hard to believe, but this is the tenth year for the Winter Jazzfest: the annual wall-to-wall smorgasbord of jazz, fusion, and other "creative music." (Still trying to figure out what
Preview: PROTOTYPE 2014
Among the many casualties when City Opera folded last year was their contemporary-opera lab VOX: an essential incubator for emerging composers that presented some 70-odd operas over 14 seasons. Fortunately, Beth