Brockhampton at Terminal 5
By Katie Zepf Last week (10/24), Texas hip hop collective Brockhampton swept through NYC, selling out three shows at Terminal 5 and making a guest appearance on The Tonight Show.
Roy Hargrove (1969-2018)
I've just learned that trumpeter Roy Hargrove died Friday night of complications from kidney failure. He was 49. Hargrove was the first jazz musician I ever saw at a real
“Dragus Maximus” by Heartbeat Opera at Roulette
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) Each fall, to kick off its season, the edgy Heartbeat Opera presents a combination drag and opera extravaganza, which also serves as
Brian Blade’s Life Cycles at The Jazz Standard
by Nick Stubblefield Credit: jazzafterhours.net Last Sunday at the Jazz Standard, drummer Brian Blade’s current project, the sextet “Life Cycles,” took the stage and played a forty-five minute set of
4th Annual BRIC JazzFest
by Steven Pisano and Pete MatthewsThe 4th Annual BRIC JazzFest returned this past weekend to the BRIC House in downtown Brooklyn, with some 24 musical acts over three "marathon" nights,
Encompass New Opera Theatre Presents “Anna Christie” at Baruch Performing Arts Center
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Of all the great American playwrights of the last hundred years, Eugene O'Neill has plumbed deeper and darker into the classic American
“Frankenstein” and Other Works in Green-Wood Cemetery
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The composer Gregg Kallor has an affinity for the macabre. His musical setting for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" debuted two
Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night with the San Francisco Symphony, Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald
Carnegie Hall opened it's 127th season last Wednesday with Michael Tilson Thomas leading the San Francisco Symphony in a pops-style program that skewed heavily towards Americana and Broadway (with a
“The Mile Long Opera” on The High Line
Composer David Lang has never been comfortable with standards of music presentation. Thirty years ago, he – along with Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe – founded Bang on a Can