Bonnaroo 2013: Friday Pics
Wilco playing the main What Stage at Bonnaroo as the sun went down Friday night. More pics from sets by Trombone Shorty, Glen Hansard, Grizzly Bear, and more on the
Bonnaroo 2013: Thursday Pics
By the time I got to the festival grounds Thursday night and set up my tent, it was late and all I wanted was a burger and a beer. But,
Jennifer Koh and Ensemble LPR at (le) Poisson Rouge
Last night, trailblazing violinist Jennifer Koh was joined by Ensemble LPR at (le) Poisson Rouge. They came together for a night of music by John Zorn, Charles Wuorinen, and Ludwig van Beethoven as a part of the LPR X5 festival. All of the pieces, ‘Passagen’ by Zorn, ‘Spin-5 for Violin and 18 Musicians’ by Wuorinen, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony brought a sense of wild abandon that perfectly complemented the youth and excitement of both Koh and Ensemble LPR.
Koh brought a fiery passion to John Zorn’s ‘Passagen’ for solo violin, which, like Wuorinen’s, was written for Ms. Koh. The piece is rife with rapid shifts from tight, intense tremolos and harsh pizzicato to tender ghostly harmonics. Sometimes, just sometimes, Koh coaxed out a single pure clean ethereal note or phrase that would sing out from the chaos before it was swallowed up again. The uneven rhythmic chords and pizzicato playing gave a distinctly Bartokian flavor, a flavor that was enhanced by Koh’s savage bowing.
Erykah Badu Causes “Quite a Disturbance” with Brooklyn Philharmonic
by Melanie Wong Photo credit: Benjamin Sutton Grammy Award-winning "Queen of Neo-soul" Erykah Badu joined forces with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn-based composer Ted Hearne this past weekend at BAM's Howard
Bonnaroo 2013: Friday
It's clear and warm here in Manchester, TN, where Bonnaroo has called home for the past dozen years. It is an impressive set up, to say the least: two main
Bonnaroo 2013
Among modern-day megafestivals, none adheres better to the original Woodstock ideal than Bonnaroo: the occasionally grungy, often blissful utopia on a farm in Manchester, TN, about 90 minutes south of
LPR Membership Giveaway!
To celebrate their LPR X5 festival, (le) Poisson Rouge is offering their exclusive "School of Fish" membership to two lucky FoM readers! Members get access to over 100 free shows every year,
Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and Nels Cline at LPR
Speaking of LPR, I stopped by last night for an early set of improvisations from three of today's greatest jazz guitarists: Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and Nels Cline, who heads back to his
LPR x 5
"We wanted to revive the symbiotic relationship between art and revelry, to establish a creative asylum for both artists and audiences." – Justin Kantor and David Handler, LPR co-founders break