Child’s Play
LPR continued its boundary-blurring ways Monday night with a program by toy pianist Phyllis Chen, who proved to be no […]
New Music
Hrdlička (Love Bird)
I suppose most people's idea of how to spend Valentine's Day involves candlelit dinner and flowers, which may explain the
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Art or Music?
Roulette has been in the same SoHo space for around for 30 years, but was new to me when I
New Sounds From Down Under
Australian instrumental trio The Necks made their first NY appearance in six years tonight, playing an hour-long set to a
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Just A Random Monday
Picture this: small, downtown club, brick wall, stage lighting. Onstage, a singer plays piano and banjo, singing cabaret-worthy songs about
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Is This Thing On?
I'm at Galapagos, listening to a normally-formidable set by new music ensemble So Percussion, when suddenly they just randomly start
Song Play
Singspiel ("Song-play") – a style of opera that combines music with spoken text – has been around for nearly three centuries.
Tough Times
It's not the happiest of times in the rarefied world of big-time music, as these recent announcements can attest. Ticket