Up North Jazz
Myk Freedman’s Saint Dirt Elementary School came all the way down from Toronto to play Barbes Wednesday night for the latest installment of Stochastic Brooklyn. It was big band jazz:
Why I’ll Never Have a Hamptons Share
Earlier this week, Celebrate Brooklyn and Central Park Summerstage released their lineups, and once again, it’s a veritable smorgasbord of (mostly) free shows. Here are the ones you can expect
Opera Is Fun
(Note: This was originally written for the City Opera blog, which will probably never see the light of day, now that the season’s ended. Oh well.) What is opera, anyway?
A Real “Feast of Music”
Japan’s Fumiaki Goto has apparently invented a dining room table that doubles as a marimba. Go here for the full meal.
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