New Music

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

Finish Line

Ok, I’m tired and ready for bed, but it was worth it to come to the Central Presbyterian Church for a night of Avant/Experimental music. Earlier, they had a gamelan

Ok, now we’re talking: I just wandered into the half-empty WFMU showcase at Spiro’s, and came across Evangelista, an Oakland outfit that blends experimental noise with the overpowering, banshee-like vocals

Mixin’ it Up

Those who are regular listeners of WNYC already know that there is a new host for Evening Music: Terrance McKnight, formerly of NPR affiliate GPR in Atlanta. McKnight is known

Changing Voices

Friday night, I attended both the U.S. premiere of Sir John Tavener’s Mass For the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2007) at St. Thomas Church,

Live Stochastic

There were only four others in the back room when I arrived for NONLOC’s set at Barbes Wednesday night, two of whom were musicians playing in the late set. It