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I don’t make a habit of citing historical references on FoM, but this is one for the books: exactly fifty years ago today, pianist Van Cliburn won the First International […]
Can I Get a Drink With That?
You could be forgiven, passing through the Saturday night frolic of the East Village last night, for failing to realizing that one of the world’s great classical violinists was playing
Lateness
Around 1am this morning, after three openers and soundchecks, things finally got interesting at the Market Hotel. Montreal’s AIDS Wolf played a speedball set of noisecore, fronted by the banshee-like
The Stupid
Part 2 of my evening brings me out to the Mrytle Ave stop on the M train, somewhere in the no man’s land between Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. The venue is
The Sacred
Part one of my Friday evening is at St. Thomas Church hearing the Kings College Choir of Cambridge, England. Kings, whom I heard sing evensong five years ago in their
Metropolis Ensemble
The Metropolis Ensemble, an upstart New York-based chamber orchestra that emphasizes the work of living composers as well as new interpretations of the familiar, played an ambitious concert last night
Voiceover
It would not be a reach to say that the breakout instrument of 2008 is the young male voice. Singers such as Beirut’s Zach Condon and Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon
Things I Love About Williamsburg
That you can get good Brooklyn Beer at any bar for $3 before 8p. That there are galleries next to thrift stores next to record label offices. That you can
Her Bach
A couple of weeks ago, posters started to appear around Park Slope advertising a concert of Bach’s "Goldberg" Variations, performed by American pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Dinnerstein, 34, lives in the