Make Music New York 2010
A reminder that today is the summer solstice, which means its also the 4th annual Make Music New York, which features free, live music of all shapes and sounds […]
Opera
Going Social
This week, I received a bizarre series of emails from someone called "Nekrotzar," alluding to a certain NY Phil music director having random encounters around NYC with his "friend" Death.
VOX 2010
With all the ups and downs that have befallen City Opera over the past couple of years, it's good to see that VOX, their annual performance lab of contemporary
Playing In Valhalla
I am fascinated by Phoenix. They hail from Paris, conquered Coachella last month, and are selling out huge houses all over the country. And, they have obvious classical leanings: the first
@feastofmusic
Btw, for those who haven't already caught on, FoM has a Twitter page (@feastofmusic) where you can catch many of my at-show tweets and other random musings. You can
VOX 2010
Now in its 11th season, City Opera's VOX - which takes place next weekend (4/30-5/1) at NYU's Skirball Center - offers listeners the unique opportunity to hear new American opera by composers
Last Chance Freddy’s
Over the past decade, I've spent many nights at Freddy's: the slightly scuzzy, offbeat bar on the corner of Dean and Bergen in Brooklyn which offers Donald O'Finn's hyperactive video montages in the
1,000 and Counting…
So, somewhere in the midst of my manic blogging from SXSW last weekend, I passed a notable milestone for FoM: 1,000 posts. It's been three years since I started this
Bleak House
The local critics have been fawning all over the Met's new production of Janáček's From the House of the Dead - Alex calls it "one of the finest things the