“La Pasión” Brings Carnival to Carnegie Hall
by Aristea Mellos In the last year or two, there’s been a flurry of negative press surrounding the composer Osvaldo Golijov. Repeated talk of missed deadlines and accusations of plagiarism left
New Music
Florilegium Chamber Choir Presents Bach, Bruckner & Füting
by Michael Cirigliano II After trekking from Carnegie Hall to Lincoln Center and back on a regular basis, it’s nice to encounter some grass-roots music-making that’s a bit closer to
New Music Bake Sale 2013
For the first time, FoM participated in the fourth-annual New Music Bake Sale: the delightfully dorky, sweetly sincere gathering of composers, musicians, and fans of adventurous music at Roulette. The seven-hour marathon
Fred Hersch: My Coma Dreams at Miller Theater
by Nicholas Fernandez Photo courtesy of MyComaDreams.com Fred Hersch mixed jazz, musical theater, and visual art into a coherent, moving retelling of his two-month, medically induced coma Saturday at Columbia
Fred Hersch, My Coma Dreams: Saturday, March 2 at Miller Theater
Fred Hersch's My Coma Dreams tells a true story of love at the dividing line between life and death. An HIV-positive jazz musician is rushed to the hospital after a mild
Deerhoof and Ensemble Dal Niente at the Ecstatic Music Festival
by Gabriel Furtado Deerhoof and Ensemble Dal Niente performing Marcos Balter's Meltdown Upshot Last Wednesday night Deerhoof and new-music group Ensemble Dal Niente came together for a concert at Merkin
Ecstatic Music Festival with Daniel Wohl, Laurel Halo & Julia Holter
The third annual Ecstatic Music Festival is back in swing over at Merkin Concert Hall, with Judd Greenstein once again presenting collaborations between composers from the new-music world with musicians
Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall
Patti Smith closing out the night with "People Have the Power." More pics of performances by Jim James, Tune-Yards, Rahzel, as well as Ira and Philip Glass at FoM's photo page.
New York Festival of Song Next: Kevin Puts and Friends at BAC
Kevin Puts is a busy man these days: In addition to composing and teaching at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, his opera Silent Night—which won last year's Pulitzer Prize—opened Friday