Ben Frost, Julianna Barwick, and Oneirogen at The Wick
Capping off a weekend of electronic music, I ventured out to the amazing new Bushwick venue The Wick on Saturday night, where Bedroom Community co-founder Ben Frost headlined an evening of
Museum Music: Ryoji Ikeda’s “superposition” at the Met Museum; Sound/Source at MoMA PS1
Are art museums the new concert halls? Not exactly, but, there is a long and storied tradition of presenting live music in art galleries and museums. Particularly in the realm
FREE TICKETS: The Joshua Light Show at NYU Skirball
NOTE: This contest has ended. On October 23-25, NYU Skirball welcomes back The Joshua Light Show, “the most psychedelic light show of all time" (Rolling Stone). This year's 3-day festival of liquid light
White Light Festival: Basil Twist’s “The Rite of Spring”
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times In 1998, I was working at the downtown arts center HERE when Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique premiered in a small black box theater in the basement. Billed as
Gotham Chamber Opera Revives Martinu…Again!
by Robert Leeper Photo Credit: Richard Termine Despite frequent comparisons to the now-defunct City Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera has managed to avoid all of the baggage that comes with filling City
Africa Now! Festival Highlights the Music of South Africa at the Apollo Theater
by Steven Pisano Photo by Steven Pisano The vibrant music presented at Saturday’s “Africa Now” concert at Harlem's Apollo Theater was strong evidence that music in contemporary South Africa has gone far
White Light Festival: The Berlin Philharmonic Bring Their Searing St. Matthew Passion to the Park Avenue Armory
In the world of music, there are small masterpieces: Allegri's Miserere, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Claire de lune. Then, there are bigger ones: Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Mahler's 2nd symphony. And then, there
FREE TICKETS: Emerson String Quartet and Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall
The renowned Emerson String Quartet shares a bill with pianist Yefim Bronfman for Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat major this Tuesday at Carnegie Hall. On its own, the quartet will perform Beethoven's
Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic Bring Russian Fire to Carnegie Hall
by Michael Cirigliano II It may not seem like Russian orchestral music would align with the Berlin Philharmonic's glossy, pristine sound, but luckily it seems that no one has ever