“Sun & Sea” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) The beach season may be winding down along the area's shorelines, but at the Brooklyn Academy of Music it is just starting. […]
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Weekend Live Music Preview: 9/17-9/19
The summer may have unofficially ended on Labor Day weekend, but with a delayed reopening to live music thanks to COVID, things are still going strong here in NYC into
EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Opens TIME:SPANS Festival at the DiMenna Center
Acoustics are a funny thing. In most concert halls, you hear the instruments in your head in relation to their position on the stage, regardless of where you sit: violins
It’s Been a Year
Almost impossible to believe, but it was a year ago today that I saw my last live concert: the NY Philharmonic with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and conductor Louis Langrée. From
Music at Home
Ok, being stuck at home sucks, but at least we have modern technology to get us through the day. And no, I don't mean bingeing Tiger King. There is a
Winter Jazzfest Brooklyn Half-Marathon
Keyon Harrold by Dan Lehner It’s hard to believe, 16 years in and with improvised music culture consistently moving out of Manhattan, that this was Winter Jazzfest’s first foray
Mid-afternoon Caroline Polachek Solo Set at Rough Trade
Veritable indie pop darling Caroline Polachek delivered a warm and inviting set at Rough Trade on Sunday, replete with pre-arranged and off-the-cuff piano arrangements from her latest release, Pang. The
Winter Jazzfest Marathon – Saturday
by Dan Lehner and Pete Matthews Greg Osby and Lakecia Benjamin at Le Poisson Rouge A warm Friday gave way to an even warmer Saturday – making Winter Jazzfest seem
Kelly Moran at Roulette
The prepared piano – where a pianist places screws, forks and other foreign objects on the piano strings to create strange, eerie timbres – has long had a place in