Even Better Than the Pope
There are more churches with major pipe organs in New York City than anywhere else in the country, some of which rank among the finest such instruments in the world. […]
Evangelist(a)
Carla Bozulich wants to shake you up. She wants to offend you. She wants you to put down your newspaper, shut off your goddamned TV, and listen. If you do,
Live HiFi
I don’t know if they planned it to coincide with Record Store Day, but the HiFi New Music Festival, which has been happening at various venues around NYC for the
Musical Pontiff
For those who have been living under a rock for the past week, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in New York this morning, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in the
Birds of a Feather
I made my way up to Zankel Hall last night for a pair of new works written for and played by the excellent Chicago new music ensemble eighth blackbird. The
Going Analog
This blog has been, and always will be, about live music. But, one of my favorite pastimes has always been spending a spare hour or two sifting through the bins
Senior Special
This is my dad, James Matthews. He lives with my mom in the house where I grew up in New Jersey, about ten miles northesast of NYC. And, though he
Quotable
"I am Music, who in sweet accents can calm each troubled heart, and now with noble anger, now with love, can kindle the most frigid minds." (Prologue to Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo,
The Greatest Day
I don’t make a habit of citing historical references on FoM, but this is one for the books: exactly fifty years ago today, pianist Van Cliburn won the First International