Turn It Up
For most of its history, Alice Tully Hall has been known as a destination for polite evenings of chamber and classical music. But, every so often, the new music set […]
Opium Den Bluegrass
It's not every day you find a string band playing in the basement of a Chinese restaurant, but that's exactly where the M Shanghai String Band holds court each month
Hither Dither
Guitars play chords. Which means when you put four of them together, as local guitar quartet Dither did at The Flea this past Monday, you get an almost endless range
Vienna
The first time I saw the Vienna Philharmonic was on a snowy Monday in January, 2003. I had flown into Vienna earlier that morning, and after a day spent wandering
Mixed Stage
Brooklyn Philharmonic with Bell Orchestre and Clogs (and Sufjan Stevens and Shara Worden), BAM, 2/26/09 (More pics below.)
Not a Broomstick
Story goes that one day, Emily Hope Price was at her apartment up in Washington Heights when she heard a loud banging coming through the floor above. When she stuck her
A New Beginning
Pretty much the entire New York music world showed up at Lincoln Center Sunday night for the re-opening of Alice Tully Hall, the oft-maligned chamber music hall that's faced Avery