NY Phil’s CONTACT! at the Met Museum
The NY Phil's CONTACT! new-music series, now in its fourth season, has become something of a holiday ritual for New Yorkers—at least for those looking for an alternative from the […]
Yarn/Wire Perform Music for the Winter Solstice at Roulette
The ongoing new-music series Ear Heart Music had its final show of 2012 at Roulette last Tuesday with a program by piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, playing a pair of premieres inspired by the cold,
Bang On A Can All-Stars Premiere Two New Works at Japan Society
by Gabriel FurtadoPart of a painting by Sakai Hōitsu Much has been made of the parallels between music and the visual arts: Debussy’s love of Turner's seascapes, Rauchenberg’s White Paintings providing
(un)common threads with Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall
By Laura Wasson Photo credit: Chris Lee Monday’s (un)common threads performance with Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall began on a somber note. Jimmy Zankel, co-chair for the Notables Committee that
New Yorkers Gravitate towards Diarrhea Planet at Death By Audio
By Melissa Caruso On JEFF the Brotherhood’s Infinity Cat label, you’ll find Diarrhea Planet, a band that sounds like what would happen had Beavis and Butthead moved to Nashville and
Medeski, Martin and Wood with Nels Cline at the Blue Note
By Dan Lehner Medeski, Martin and Wood have made a long-standing career out of making endlessly fascinating music with guitarists, and their set last week at the Blue Note
Orpheus Club Holiday Concert with Denyce Graves
RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Each year around this time, I make my way out to New Jersey to see my Dad sing a holiday concert with the Orpheus Club: a semi-professional
For the Innocents
The Coventry Carol (16th Cen.) Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child, Bye, bye, lully, lullay. Lullay, thou little tiny Child, Bye, bye, lully, lullay. O sisters too, how may we
12/12/12 Sandy Benefit Live Now
Only a city like New York could pull of a benefit concert of this magnitude: gathered tonight at Madison Square Garden is a Who's Who of rock royalty from the past