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."

Bela Fleck with Brooklyn Rider at (le) Poisson Rouge

by Nick Fallon Supporting his most recent album, The Impostor, Bela Fleck performed new music for banjo and string quartet with […]

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Preview: San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony will finally be taking the stage at Carnegie Hall this week, after

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New York Philharmonic with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Leila Josefowicz

When Esa-Pekka Salonen left his post as music director of the LA Phil in 2009, he said that he wanted to

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White Light Festival: Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus Perform Messiaen and Beethoven

There is nothing quite like the sight of a full orchestra and chorus on a concert-hall stage to instill a

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Hilary Hahn Encores at Greenwich House Music School

Concert violinists aren't typically the adventurous sort. As virtuosic as folks like Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, and Sarah Chang are,

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White Light Festival Preview: Thomanerchor Leipzig Tonight at Church of St. Mary the Virgin

One of the great musical traditions of the Western world is the weekly services sung by the Thomanerchor of Leipzig—the 800-year-old

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FREE TICKETS: Zee Avi at LPR!

NOTE: This contest has ended. Armed with an effortlessly beautiful voice, Malaysian singer-songwriter Zee Avi delights audiences with her jazzy

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Hagen Quartet Deftly Manages Beethoven Quartet Cycle at 92Y

by Michael Cirigliano II Tina Fineberg, The New York Times The Upper East Side's 92nd Street Y has a longstanding

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Ensemble 54 at Interart Theatre Annex

by Melanie Wong It was a tight squeeze in the 70-seat black-box known as the Interart Theatre Annex, where Ensemble

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