New Year, New Leaf: Igor Levit at Carnegie Hall
Well, it's been a rough couple of months here in NYC. Just when we thought we were almost done with COVID-19, it came roaring back around Thanksgiving, shutting down bars,
Patti Smith Comes Home to City Parks Foundation SummerStage in Central Park
Patti Smith at City Parks Foundation SummerStage 9.19.21 Photo: Pete Matthews/Feast of Music If you're a music lover like I am, these past few weeks have been a joyous
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Close Out BRIC’s 2021 Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
I've had the good fortune to witness the human dynamo that is Trombone Shorty on at least a half-dozen occasions over the past decade, in all sorts of contexts: at
“Sun & Sea” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) The beach season may be winding down along the area's shorelines, but at the Brooklyn Academy of Music it is just starting.
Weekend Live Music Preview: 9/17-9/19
The summer may have unofficially ended on Labor Day weekend, but with a delayed reopening to live music thanks to COVID, things are still going strong here in NYC into
EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Opens TIME:SPANS Festival at the DiMenna Center
Acoustics are a funny thing. In most concert halls, you hear the instruments in your head in relation to their position on the stage, regardless of where you sit: violins
The Boston Symphony Orchestra Returns to Live Performance at Tanglewood
STOCKBRIDGE, Massachusetts – On a fairly unremarkable Tuesday in March 2020, I decided at the last minute to go see the NY Phil and Louis Langrée perform a concert at
Louis Andriessen (1939-2021)
Louis Andriessen following the world premiere of Agamemnon at the New York Philharmonic, October 2018 Less than a week following the death of Frederic Rzewski, on Thursday we lost
Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021)
(Frederic Rzewski performing The People United Shall Never Be Defeated! at 2017's Big Ears Festival) De mortuis nihil nisi bonum ("Don't speak ill of the dead") – Chilon of Sparta