Classical

The Sacred

Part one of my Friday evening is at St. Thomas Church hearing the Kings College Choir of Cambridge, England. Kings, whom I heard sing evensong five years ago in their

Metropolis Ensemble

The Metropolis Ensemble, an upstart New York-based chamber orchestra that emphasizes the work of living composers as well as new interpretations of the familiar, played an ambitious concert last night

Her Bach

A couple of weeks ago, posters started to appear around Park Slope advertising a concert of Bach’s "Goldberg" Variations, performed by American pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Dinnerstein, 34, lives in the

Across the Pond

Anyone taking a peek ahead in the Concert Calendar may have noticed some events coming up at the end of May at various churches, opera houses and concert halls on

Outrage

As noted previously, there are Olivier Messiaen memorial concerts happening all over the world this season, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The orchestral work that many

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

Easter Day

I’m not religious in any traditional sense, but when I used to live on 109th St. and Amsterdam, there was no bigger day on the calendar than Easter Sunday at

Disappointment

I should have known better than to cut it close at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine this morning, after getting locked out of the Christmas Eve service in

Passion Players

Every Holy Week for the past six years, I’ve listened to Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s 2001 Teldec recording of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, one of the towering works of the repertoire. But,

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