White Light Festival: Mavis Staples
For more than six decades, Mavis Staples has posessed one of music's most powerful and iconic voices, equal parts gospel, soul and R&B. Recently, however, Staples has expanded into new sonic […]
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John Adams Conducts the Yale Philharmonia and Brentano Quartet
by Nick Stubblefield Bernstein. Mahler. Stravinsky. These men were all highly-respected composer/conductors found in music history textbooks. Flip to the end of that textbook, and one is likely to find
White Light Festival: Roomful of Teeth Perform Music by Eckert, Amidon, Wells and Shaw
About a year ago, vocal octet Roomful of Teeth offered the first complete NYC performance of Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices. Not long after, they performed it again during
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
Steve Schick Performs John Luther Adams at Mostly Mozart
Among the orchestras, new music ensembles and violinists all taking part in this final week of Mostly Mozart, there was percussionist Steve Schick, who I first encountered during his Miller Theatre
Mostly Mozart: Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Bach, Bartok, and Enescu
by Robert Leeper As if to provide a soundtrack to the lightning storm crackling just outside the windows of the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse last night, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja dug into the
John Luther Adams’ “Sila: The Breath of the World” at Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Luther Adams, who moved from Alaska to NYC earlier this year, made a ritualistic offering to his new hometown Friday night in the form of a
Tribute to Pete and Toshi Seeger at Damrosch Park
I really wanted to be at today's all-star tribute to Pete and Toshi Seeger, happening right now at Damrosch Park, but there are too many other things to do. At
New Music at the New York Philharmonic
"We have taken a deliberately non-dogmatic approach to selecting the art to be displayed…The only criterion was that the concerts comprise music that we believe in and are excited to