Timo Andres/Metropolis Ensemble
After the last jam Metropolis Ensemble threw in a Clinton Hill Brownstone, I jumped at the chance to check out their latest home show, in a lavish penthouse a stone's […]
Monks In Black
Last night, France's Ensemble Organum came to the Baryshnikov Arts Center to perform Guillaume de Machaut's Messe De Nostre Dame (1364): one of the earliest known complete settings of the Latin Mass and,
Coming in January: Ecstatic Music Festival
'Tis the season of genre-bending new festivals: hot on the heels of the inaugural White Light Festival, the Kaufman Center brings us the Ecstatic Music Festival: a two month series
Brahms in Buffalo
For the second time in two weeks, I found myself in Kleinhans Music Hall this past Saturday for a concert by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. When I last saw them,
Stockhausen Comes To Brooklyn
In 2007, I had the chance to experience a Karlheniz Stockhausen performance at the Auditorium della Musica in Rome. Sitting behind a massive soundboard at the center of Sinopoli Hall, the iconoclastic
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society @ Joe’s Pub, 11/30/10
It is very easy to take for granted the extraordinary music we have in our midst here in NYC (such is the purpose of this website.) Case in point: the orchestral
Braids/ARMS/Neighbors @ Mercury Lounge
On a dark and quiet Monday coming off a long holiday weekend, one could be forgiven for not wanting to venture out into the early winter cold. But, after five
Better Than Wings
Through an unexpected twist of fate, I've begun spending occasional weekends in Buffalo: that western New York city best known for the Bills, Ani DiFranco and Hot Wings. And, while
City Opera: Intermezzo
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend City Opera for the first time this season to see a performance of Richard Strauss' Intermezzo: a two-act comedy of manners about