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."

Vagabond Opera Enchants Joe’s Pub

by Melanie Wong What do you get when Moulin Rouge meets a traveling carnival and Shakira? Vagabond Opera, of course—the Bohemian troupe combining traditional opera with cabaret, gypsy-style folk music, and

Preview: “Soundings” Exhibition at MoMA

Tristan Perich, Microtonal Wall, 2011 On August 10, MoMA opens its first major exhibition of sound art, called Soundings: A Contemporary Score. (Long overdue, for those of us who have

The Knights Bring Bach and Britten to Naumburg Bandshell

On a near-perfect evening last night, The Knights—Colin and Eric Jacobsen’s ambitious “flexible orchestra”—performed at Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell, now in its 114th season. The mostly geriatric older audience packed

Contemporary Dance x2

Mark Dendy Dance's "Ritual Cyclical," set to the music of the Kronos Quartet for Lincoln Center Out of Doors' "KRONOS at 40." More pics here. (Show repeats tonight at 6PM.)

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