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Mario Diaz de Leon at Roulette
Mario Diaz de Leon is one of those new cross-bred composers—David T. Little and Bryce Dessner, among others—who have found their way to serious music through rock. In Diaz de Leon's
From Out of Town: Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Verizon Hall
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NOTE: This Contest Has Ended. Zoë Keating, the classically trained cellist who becomes a one-woman orchestra with the help of her trusty laptop, is coming to SubCulture next week, and
Simple Minds at Roseland Ballroom
Making their first NYC visit in more than a decade, Simple Minds took a packed Roseland Ballroom for a trip down memory lane last night, playing their irresistible synth pop
Heras-Casado Leads Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Britten and Shostakovich
by Michael Cirigliano II Photo credit: Ruby Washington, The New York Times For their first program of the new season at Carnegie Hall, the Orchestra of St. Luke's presented dynamic
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New York Phil Free Webcasts on Medici.tv
The New York Philharmonic has put on concerts in some pretty far-flung places over the past few years. Fortunately, for those who who couldn’t make it to Pyongyang in 2008,
Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera
by Robert Leeper Photo credit: Ken Howard There are a lot of big-ticket, big-cast operas to sift through at the Metropolitan Opera these days. However, tucked between the much-touted Two