A Real “Feast of Music”
Japan’s Fumiaki Goto has apparently invented a dining room table that doubles as a marimba. Go here for the full meal.
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New Music
Live HiFi
I don’t know if they planned it to coincide with Record Store Day, but the HiFi New Music Festival, which has been happening at various venues around NYC for the
Birds of a Feather
I made my way up to Zankel Hall last night for a pair of new works written for and played by the excellent Chicago new music ensemble eighth blackbird. The
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MATA Recap
This week, the MATA Festival of New Music returned to the Brooklyn Lyceum for the second year in a row, featuring a wide range of music by young composers for
Prolonging
The MATA festival of young composers returns to the Brooklyn Lyceum this week, in its first season under new directors Missy Mazzoli and Chris McIntrye. The concert starts in
Pocket Opera
The Birmingham Music Contemporary Group, which is in residence at Zankel Hall this weekend, was founded 20 years ago by Simon Rattle, culling performers from the City of Birmingham Symphony
This Is a Piano
For most of its history, the piano has been played using the keyboard and pedals, which by themselves offer almost limitless musical possibilities. But last night’s concert at Merkin Concert
I’m Not TONY
For those of you who might be new to FoM, a point of clarification about my Concert Calendar: these are the concerts that I myself plan on attending, not everything
Quiet Night
A few hours after sitting in Trinity Church for Tenebrae, I stopped by Barbes for Bethany’s Stochastic Brooklyn, catching the second half of David Moore’s octet Bing and Ruth. Moore