FREE TICKETS: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Jazz Standard
NOTE: This contest has ended. Distinguished jazz guitarist/composer Kurt Rosenwinkel brings his New Quartet to Jazz Standard next week, and FoM is giving away a pair of free tickets to your choice […]
Trinity Church’s Twelfth Night Festival Gala Concert with Music by Britten and Wachner
As most New Yorkers know, the two weeks after Christmas are typically a dead time for NYC performing-arts organizations. But throughout music history, a great deal of music has been
Preview: Winter Jazzfest 2014
Hard to believe, but this is the tenth year for the Winter Jazzfest: the annual wall-to-wall smorgasbord of jazz, fusion, and other "creative music." (Still trying to figure out what
Preview: PROTOTYPE 2014
Among the many casualties when City Opera folded last year was their contemporary-opera lab VOX: an essential incubator for emerging composers that presented some 70-odd operas over 14 seasons. Fortunately, Beth
FREE TICKETS: Asphalt Orchestra at LPR
NOTE: This contest has ended. Renegade marching band Asphalt Orchestra received widespread acclaim during last summer's Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival for their rendition of Pixies' epic Surfer Rosa album. On Sunday, January 12, at 10:00 p.m., the 12-piece mega-force
Michael Lowenstern Comes Home to Old Stone House in Park Slope
Living out in Park Slope, I'm always on the hunt for shows I can get to, minus the long schlep home afterwards. So, apparently, was Michael Lowenstern, who used to commute
Coffee Conversation: Roomful of Teeth’s Brad Wells
It's been an exciting year for contempoary vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, whose debut album (New Amsterdam)—which includes Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices—is up for three Grammy Awards this
Feast of Music’s Year in Review: 2013
Photo credits: Pete Matthews, Ryan Jensen (SubCulture) It was definitely a banner year for both New York City's music scene and Feast of Music. Here at FoM, we provided over
FREE TICKETS: Nico Muhly and Pekka Kuusisto at LPR
Note: This contest has ended. Looking for a way to celebrate the first weekend of 2014? Look no further: Ambitious composer-on-the-rise Nico Muhly and acclaimed violinist Pekka Kuusisto are headed to