Weekend Preview: 2/11-2/13
Friday, 2/11 Ethan Iverson at Roulette, 8pm Ever since leaving The Bad Plus, the rock-jazz trio he co-founded in 2000, pianist Ethan Iverson has flourished as a solo artist while […]
New Music
“The Hang” by Taylor Mac at HERE
by Steven Pisano (All photographs by Steven Pisano) If you haven't been following the career of Taylor Mac, you've been missing out on one of the most protean theater artists
“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.
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
Louis Andriessen (1939-2021)
Louis Andriessen following the world premiere of Agamemnon at the New York Philharmonic, October 2018 Less than a week following the death of Frederic Rzewski, on Thursday we lost
Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021)
(Frederic Rzewski performing The People United Shall Never Be Defeated! at 2017's Big Ears Festival) De mortuis nihil nisi bonum ("Don't speak ill of the dead") – Chilon of Sparta
The New York Philharmonic Returns to Live Performance at The Shed
by Steven Pisano (All photographs by Steven Pisano) The year 2020 will be remembered as a vacuum in the New York City performing arts world for quite some time. For
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