Rebirth
After work yesterday, I walked across Fulton Street to St. Paul's Chapel for a holiday concert by the Trinity Youth Chorus: a choir program for boys and girls between 5 and 18 […]
Holiday Brass
Holiday music and brass go together like Christmas and snow: you don't need one to have the other, but the two combined are just so much better. Fortunately for me, Trinity
A Worthy Companion
'Tis the season for holiday music in New York, with all the major arts institutions around town putting their usual offerings on the shelf in favor of the same old
2 x 6
I like Schoenberg. And I like Philip Glass. But, when you pair Glass' own arrangement of his 3rd symphony with Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht for string sextet – as the Glass Chamber
Dinner Show
Sometimes, the day job has its perks: thanks to some folks I do business with, I was invited on Wednesday to Craftsteak for a five course meal cooked by
Freelancer
(photo by Hiroyuki Ito, New York Times) Now that Esa-Pekka Salonen no longer has a full-time conducting gig (he's still the Principal Conductor of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, basically a part-time job,) he
RIP Liam (& CBTM)
I've just learned the sad news that Liam Clancy, the guitarist and last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers, died this past Friday at age 74. For those of you
Art Basel Music
Music was hardly the focus of this year's Art Basel Miami Beach: the annual bacchanal that brings virtually the entire art world to South Florida for five days of browsing,
Welcome to Miami
After a day of browsing the countless art fairs of Art Basel, this pretty much sums up my feelings at this point.