“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
The New York Philharmonic Returns to Live Performance at The Shed
by Steven Pisano (All photographs by Steven Pisano) The year 2020 will be remembered as a vacuum in the New York City performing arts world for quite some time. For
It’s Been a Year
Almost impossible to believe, but it was a year ago today that I saw my last live concert: the NY Philharmonic with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and conductor Louis Langrée. From
John Williams Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein
"Music is not really a job, it’s something that the more you practice in it and work in it, the more interesting it becomes. My activities are the result of