Audrey Chen @ Issue Project Room
Ventured over to local new music venue Issue Project Room last night to see cellist and vocalist Audrey Chen perform her haunting, often beautiful music before an intimate crowd. She […]
The Russians are Coming
Full house at Avery Fisher on Tuesday night to see the Russian National Orchestra with their exciting young Guest Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski. The RNO was founded in 1990 by pianist/conductor
A Really Cheap Seat
Yet another innovation from Mr. Gelb at the Met: flat screen TV’s in the lobby. This isn’t really anything new – I watched a good bit of a Robert Wilson
Ligeti @ the Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic offers their first performance of Gyorgy Ligeti’s Violin Concerto this week with German violinist Christian Tetzlaff. For those of you unfamiliar with Ligeti, he’s the guy
MATA Festival Comes to Brooklyn
More good music making it’s way to Brooklyn: the 9th annual MATA Festival of New Music will be held next week at the Brooklyn Lyceum. MATA was founded in 1996
Sad News From New Jersey
According to Dan Wakin in today’s Times, the NJSO is planning to sell off their Golden Collection of 30 rare stringed instruments, which I had the chance to hear just
Both Hands
A packed house at the People’s Symphony last night to see the venerable pianist Leon Fleisher in recital. For those of you unfamiliar with Fleisher’s story: he was on his
Misha Makes Good
I made my way over to Hell’s Kitchen last night to see a wonderful recital, part of the new Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Movado Hour series. These monthly concerts – which
Get Your Wagner On
Anyone with six hours to spare today would do well to tune into 96.3 FM for the Met’s broadcast of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, starring Johan Botha as