MATA’s Young Composers Now! Festival at The Kitchen
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The MATA Young Composers Now! festival, ending a week-long run at The Kitchen tonight, turns 20 years old next year. Over that span […]
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Big Ears Festival 2017 Recap
"I think the unexpected nature (of Knoxville) gives the festival a certain relief that it wouldn't have if it was where everybody expects it to be." – Ashley Capps, Founder/Artistic Director,
Tristan Perich at The Kitchen
by Robert Leeper and FoM Let me cut to the chase: there is no one today writing music that is more relevant, more engaging, more viscerally exciting than Tristan Perich.
Sxip Shirey Album Release at National Sawdust
by Nick Stubblefield It would be futile to try and encapsulate impressions of electro-acoustic artist Sxip Shirey's (pronounced SKIP SHY-REE) album release show at Williamsburg's National Sawdust in a single blog
Today: Make Music Winter 2016
As New Yorkers finish up their shopping and start thinking about heading home for the holidays, they'll be surrounded by music all day today as part of the 6th annual Make Music Winter,
The Second Annual BRIC JazzFest Marathon: Night 1
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The BRIC JazzFest Marathon, three nights of topflight music now in its second season, opened Thursday night with a night of
Warm Up 2016 at MoMA PS1
A torrential downpour blew through MoMA PS1 on Saturday afternoon, which threatened to put a damper on things at Warm Up, the Saturday afternoon dance party now in it's 19th year. But, it
MATA Festival 2016 Wrapup
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) As one of NYC's leading contemporary classical and experimental music festivals, the MATA Festival was back in town last week for six
Preview: Big Ears Festival 2016
I'm excited to be returning to Knoxville, TN this weekend for the Big Ears Festival, which I attended for the first time last year and was pretty much blown away by