A Sat Night in Feb – Part 2
1030-?: Bon Iver and Black Mountain at Glasslands Gallery, S. 2nd & Kent, Williamsburg. Program: vocally driven emo (Bon Iver) and psychadelic guitar rock (Black Mountain). Price: $0 (I snuck […]
A Sat Night in Feb – Part 1
8-945p: The Juilliard Quartet at the Peoples Symphony Concerts, 16th & Irving. Program: Haydn’s Op.86, No.6, Verdi’s Quartet in E Minor, and the devastating Shostakovich Quartet No. 13. Price: $9.
For Andrew
The jazz community – and those who hang with them – turned out in force last night at Tea Lounge to support the benefit for saxophonist/composer Andrew D’Angelo. $20 got
Music to Live By
Nate Chinen has a piece in today’s Times about Andrew D’Angelo, a Slope saxophonist and composer who underwent surgery last week to remove a brain tumor, and now has been
Atomic Redux
The second of the St. Louis Symphony’s concerts last weekend at Carnegie was full of dark, somber music: Brahms Tragic Overture, Berg’s Violin Concerto (with the formidable Christian Tetzlaff), and
Here’s Jonny
P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is up for a total of 8 Oscars next weekend, including Best Picture. However, Jonny Greenwood’s music, taken largely from Popcorn Superhet Receiver, was
Love Song
I got a healthy dose of conductor David Robertson’s pedagogic prowess last month at the Concrete Frequency festival in L.A., where he offered straightforward, humor-laced intros to works by Berio,
No Handstamp Required
"I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the
I <3 Barbes
I was without plans this Valentine’s evening until I stopped into my beloved local Barbes, which offered up a big heart-shaped box of music by a pair of lady expats