the public domain: Performance Day
Steven Pisano As I walked up Broadway from the A train on Saturday morning, something felt different. I’d made this walk countless times before, usually rushing to catch a curtain at the Met, the
New Music
Dr. Dog and The Knights at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
I had other plans for Saturday, so Friday was my last opportunity to stop by BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! this summer, where Philly rockers Dr. Dog were joined by openers The Knights
The Public Domain: Put-Together at Baruch College
What do you get when you combine Orange, Red, and Yellow? As I found out last night at the put-together for the public domain at Baruch College's gymnasium, some pretty astonishing sounds. With
The Public Domain: Working With Simon Halsey
When I first experienced Simon Halsey's work with the Berlin Radio Symphony Chorus in the Berlin Philharmonic's extraordinary 2014 production of the St. Matthew Passion, I never imagined that less than two
“The Hubble Cantata” and Tigue at BRIC’s Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) “We are stardust/ Billion year old carbon/ We are golden/ Caught in the devil’s bargain/ And we’ve got to get ourselves back
Bang on a Can Summer Marathon 2016
As if there wasn’t enough going on in the Berkshires last weekend, Saturday night brought the 15th edition of the Bang on a Can Summer Marathon to Mass MoCA up
The Public Domain: Putting It Together
At the start of last night's rehearsal of the public domain, our strand leader, Maria Sensi Sellner, said that her goal was to run through the entire piece twice in the
The Public Domain: Adding Movement
As if learning to sing a new score from scratch wasn't enough, David Lang's the public domain also calls for the performers to engage in a series movements and gestures, designed by
The Public Domain: First Rehearsal
Aside from having a bit of unexpected free time on my hands, the thing that finally convinced me to participate in David Lang’s the public domain was the fact that one of