My friends Picastro from Toronto made the trip south Friday night for a mellow, one-night stand at Littlefield, along with fellow Candians Elfin Saddle and local stringers Nat Baldwin (Dirty Projectors) […]
At last night's edition of the Ecstatic Music Festival, Olga Bell and festival curator Judd Greenstein joined forces on a double bill of music inspired by each artist's heritage. Bell, who was born in Russia,
Opera returned to the stage of BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House Tuesday night with the Canadian Opera Company's production of "The Nightingale and other Fables": a collection of short songs and
For those who missed the last LA Phil Live in January, your next opportunity is a week from Sunday, when Duda conducts an all-Tchiakovsky program. Trailer here; more details on
Confounding those media outlets who've branded Lincoln Center's inaugural Tully Scope Festival as "avant-garde," pianist Emanuel Ax took the stage of Alice Tully Hall Saturday night, with an all-Schubert program of
Ok, I'll admit it: there are some Sundays when I just want to sleep in. Or, at the very least, not have to schlep from Park Slope to the Upper
An extraordinary double bill by a pair of living masters last night at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater. It was, I'm sad to say, the first time I was in the
Axiom performing Morton Feldman's extraordinary Rothko Chapel, Tully Scope, 2/24/11Darcy James Argue's Secret Society performing works by Vijay Iyer, Nicole Lizee and David T. Little, Ecstatic Music Festival, 2/24/11 More pics
What is this, SXSW? Tonight, it'll certainly feel like it as I shuffle back and forth along upper Broadway to catch a pair of stellar contemporary music events that both
