Growing up Catholic, I was always turned off by the music in church, which was either plain, dull, or just simply amateurish. A few years ago, I came across the

When I started Feast of Music a little under two months ago, I really had no knowledge of the New York Music blogosphere, other than Alex Ross’ The Rest is

Time is short and events (after work) are long, so just a quickie about the Wordless Music concert this past Monday night. The Good Shepherd Church hosted an overflow house

IN the beginning – before Bruckner, before Beethoven, before even Bach – there was Liturgical Music. The core devices of the western musical tradition – polyphony, counterpoint, harmonic progression –

I was stuck in traffic coming in the Lincoln Tunnel last night, and so I had to hear the start of last night’s St. Louis Symphony concert from the foyer.

Barbes just keeps cranking out the aural magic. On Sunday night, I stopped by the back room by for the monthly Barbes Classical night, presented by the Concert Artists Guild.