These Kids Are All Right: Juillard415 and AXIOM
For all of the world-class performing ensembles that come trotting through NYC on a regular basis, it's easy to overlook the regular concerts given here by one of the world's
New Music
Ecstatic Music Festival Recap: Lesley Flanigan and People Get Ready/Victoire and Glenn Kotche
The fourth edition of the Ecstatic Music Festival got underway in earnest last week with a pair of shows that featured unique collaborations between musicians from both the indie and
JACK Quartet Plays Lachenmann at Morgan Library
f you’re looking for a concept to wrap your head around, look no further than German composer Helmut Lachenmann. Last Wednesday night at the Morgan Library & Museum, the JACK Quartet guided the audience on a journey—an intense lesson in Musique concrète, a compositional style with which he is closely associated. The performance was a CD release event for JACK’s new album featuring these works, due out on MODE ON April 1st.
Preview: Ecstatic Music Festival 2014
The fourth season of the Ecstatic Music Festival is now underway, with 11 unique and varied collaborations between composers and performers from both sides of the indie/classical divide. A collaboration
Feast of Music Turns Seven
Seven years ago today, Feast of Music was launched with a review of—of all things—the Minnesota Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Osmo Vänskä. (I liked it.) Back then, FoM was
Steve Schick Astonishes at Miller Theatre
All photos: Karli Cadel Steve Schick proved last night at Miller Theatre that he is far more than just a talented musician. He is a deeply sensitive, thoughtful human being
Family Fun Tomorrow at Carnegie and the NY Philharmonic
Super Bowl Boulevard might be where all the daytrippers are hanging out this week, but if you and the kids don’t feel like waiting a couple of hours to ride
Carnegie Hall Announces 2014-15 Season
What can I say? I'm a sucker for a free lunch. Continuing the parade of performing arts institutions eager to trot out their offerings to members of the scribbling class,
Coffee Conversation: Bora Yoon
Multimedia composer/performer Bora Yoon has spent the better part of a decade developing her one-woman show, Sunken Cathedral, which she describes as "an architectural journey through a house, and an archetypal journey through