My Top 20
Oh Lordy. These days, The Times seems keen on lobbing up fungos to hit out of the park of musical debate. First, there was the ill-advised critics roundtable/gripe session surrounding this past
New Music
New Music Moving to Brooklyn
Not to be outdone by Issue Project Room's pending relocation to Downtown Brooklyn, veteran new music space Roulette has announced that it will soon be relocating to the YMCA's 1928 Art
One Long Night
The Winter Solstice may not be until Dec. 21st, but these increasingly long nights seem to be cater-made for multiple-show goings. Case in point: I managed to get to three different
Timo Andres/Metropolis Ensemble
After the last jam Metropolis Ensemble threw in a Clinton Hill Brownstone, I jumped at the chance to check out their latest home show, in a lavish penthouse a stone's
Coming in January: Ecstatic Music Festival
'Tis the season of genre-bending new festivals: hot on the heels of the inaugural White Light Festival, the Kaufman Center brings us the Ecstatic Music Festival: a two month series
Stockhausen Comes To Brooklyn
In 2007, I had the chance to experience a Karlheniz Stockhausen performance at the Auditorium della Musica in Rome. Sitting behind a massive soundboard at the center of Sinopoli Hall, the iconoclastic
TRANZAC
Nick in Toronto shared the above video with me earlier today, a reminder of the wonders of the TRANZAC: that delightfully oddball venue with the Zine gallery upstairs and some of
Antony @ White Light
The extraordinary Antony and the Johnsons performing earlier tonight at Alice Tully Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival. More tomorrow.
Metropolis Ensemble: Brownstone
Not getting into Meredith Monk's performance at the White Lights Festival on Thursday did allow me to make my way over to Clinton Hill in time to catch that evening's Metropolis'