New Yorkers in North Korea
For all you night owls, the New York Phil’s "historic" concert from Pyongyang, North Korea will be streamed live tonight on the WNET website, starting at 4am EST. Apparently, the
Not Another Fundraiser…
How This Works… Support Freeform Radio! Your NameYour EmailYour Pledge $ Add this banner to your site! ‘Tis the season of giving: the annual WFMU Marathon kicks off today, with
Different Strings
All this month, Issue Project Room has been highlighting various members of the instrument family, exploring their furthest-out possibilities. Last week was devoted to strings, and Friday night’s offering was
It’s All the Same To Me
I wish I could have brought along some of my hip(st)er friends on my L-train journey last night. The Juilliard String Quartet may not be the hippest bunch of musicians
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