I realized recently that while these Cocktail Conversations may be thought-provoking, they've been pretty homogeneous in terms of their subjects (namely: all white dudes.) So, when I ran into vocalist/songwriter Becca
"I offer to you all the transports of love and joy, the ecstasies, raptures, revelations and heavenly visions of all the holy saints…" St. Thomas Aquinas (from Livre du Saint Sacrament)
I'm not typically a fan of lists, but Gramophone's newly-released list of the Top 20 orchestras is the world is worth a gander, if only for pure amusement. The top
“The job’s impossible, and one must pray that one will be only moderately incompetent.” Clive Barnes (1927-2008)
After catching the Rangers at MSG on Monday, my friend Molly and I headed to the LES for a musical nightcap. After hearing a pleasant – if prosaic – singer-songwriter
Take your pick: Lenny as New Yorker. Lenny as Social Activist. Lenny as TV Star. Carnegie's Bernstein Discovery Day had all three on Saturday. And, they could have easily squeezed in half-a-dozen more
On my way back to Brooklyn, I ran into this dude at Union Square Station, who somehow managed to haul an upright piano all the way down to the platform.
Tonight, I paid my first visit this season to the People's Symphony Concerts, where the Washington Irving High School Auditorium was packed for a concert by the Juilliard String
