Sleep When You’re Dead
My (intended) schedule for the next two days: Saturday 11a-530p: Discovery Day at Carnegie with the Emerson String Quartet 2p-5p: Joan Tower’s Notable Women Festival at the Chelsea Art Museum
Other
Can It
(from a letter in this week’s Time Out NY, responding to the claim that Broadway show orchestras, "sometimes fake it") "The fake-orchestra machine you cited has been banned by the
Bklyn sounds
Out tonight at local hang Southpaw, a free show sponsored by AM New York. Mostly not worth mentioning, but one band – The Attorneys – plays with confidence and presence,
Last Night @ Barbes
Two great sets last night at local music temple Barbes. The early set featured Ljova, stage name of the 28 year old Russian-American violist and composer Lev Zhurbin, playing with
Latin Sounds from Prague
Heard an excellent Latin guitarist/vocalist at Barbes tonight, who just happens to be Czech. Her name is Marta Topferova, and she played cuatro, a small Spanish guitar, with flute, bass
Brooklyn Next @ BAM
Last night at BAM, the Brooklyn Next Festival presented a program of artists associated with Galapagos, the performance space/cafe in Williamsburg. First up was Bora Yoon, who played various instruments
Brooklyn Mardi Gras – Follow Up
Great time at Union Hall last night – I got there around 9, and was happy to see my friend Simon and his girlfriend Jenny, who’d made the trek out
Brooklyn Mardi Gras
Not too many choices for live music this Mardi Gras, but this event tonight at Union Hall in Brooklyn – which will benefit musicians of New Orleans – should be
Conrad Keely on the Need for Live Performance
Conrad Keely, of Austin’s …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, makes a compelling (and graphic) argument against the dilution of music appreciation in our iTunes-enabled culture