Martin Segal Awards Honors Young Artists at Lincoln Center
"I believe in the cultivating influence of the arts. The arts are what make life worth living." – Martin Segal This past Monday's Martin A. Segal Award ceremony at Lincoln
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Brings The Night Shift to Littlefield
In the ongoing quest to get young people to embrace classical music by serving it up in more casual environs(i.e., one where you can get a drink), one peculiar exponent
Vienna Philharmonic and Daniele Gatti at Carnegie Hall
Following in the footsepts of the Berlin Philharmonic’s Schumann fest this past October, the Vienna Philharmonic returned to Carnegie Hall last weekend for their annual NYC visit with a trio of concerts
New York Philharmonic Perform Sibelius and Brahms
Although this past weekend in NYC was dominated by a visiting Austrian orchestra, the NY Phil made some musical fireworks of their own Saturday night under Sakari Oramo, whom I last saw conducting Strauss
Works by Paula Matthusen at the Avant Music Festival
by Steven Pisano Now its in sixth year at Wild Project, the Avant Music Festival, curated by Randy Gibson and Megan Schubert, provides contemporary composers an opportunity to present
Chris Bergson at Jazz Standard
by Steven Pisano This winter in New York City has been so unrelentingly and inhospitably cold, so bone-numbingly frigid that a lot of sensible people have just stayed home
Shara Worden and ACO present Sins and Songs
by Robert Leeper Shara Worden, perhaps best known as the lead singer of the band My Brightest Diamond, shared Carnegie’s Zankel Hall stage Friday evening with the American Composers Orchestra
Ecstatic Music Festival: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert
Most of the works on last Thursday's Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund concert at Merkin Concert Hall were riffs on some found sound, or other pre-existing music. Which, in itself
Calder Quartet Play Norman, Adès and Ravel at the Brooklyn Library
For more than 40 years, Carnegie Hall has offered a series of free Neighborhood Concerts at theaters, libraries and community centers in all five boroughs. For many, these concerts – which run