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The Second Annual BRIC JazzFest Marathon: Night 1

by Steven Pisano    (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The BRIC JazzFest Marathon, three nights of topflight music now in its second season, opened Thursday night with a night of […]

Tags: Anthony Wonsey, Ben Allison & Think Free, bria skonberg, BRIC, Brooklyn JazzFest, Bruno Mars, David Murray Infinity Quartet, Inyang Bassey, Jason Marshall Quintet, jazz, Keith Loftis, Kenyatta Beasley, Krystle Warren, Marcus Gilmore, Michael Leonhart Orchestra, music, Taylor McFerrin

“The Hubble Cantata” and Tigue at BRIC’s Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) "We are stardust/ Billion year old carbon/ We are golden/ Caught in the devil's bargain/ And we've got to get ourselves back

Tags: 1B1, astrophysics, Big Bang, BRIC, brooklyn, celebrate brooklyn, classical, Dr. Mario Livio, Eliza McNitt, Fistful of Stars, Hubble Space Telescope, Jessica Rivera, kickstarter, Metropolitan Opera, music, NASA, Nathan Gunn, opera, Orion Nebula, Paola Prestini, Prospect Park, Royce Vavrek, The Hubble Cantata, Tigue, virtual reality, Washington Chorus, Youth Chorus

MATA Festival 2016 Wrapup

by Steven Pisano  (All photos by Steven Pisano.) As one of NYC's leading contemporary classical and experimental music festivals, the MATA Festival was back in town last week for six

Tags: Carlos Codeiro, classical, Daniegl Meyer Gronvold, Dixon Place, Edgar Gusman, Ensemble Linea, Ensemble neoN, Eric Dolphy, experimental, German Alonso, Jan Martin Smordal, Johannes Burghoff, MATA, MATA Festival, Matthew Welch, Maxim Kolomiiets, music, National Sawdust, Neil Luck, Nicolai Worsaae, qin, Rhythm Method Quartet, Ryan Muncy, Scandinavia House, Scott Wollschleger, Sean Clancy, Silje Aker Johnsen, Stuart Breczinski, William Schimmel, Yi Zhou, Zhou Quian

Julia Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer” at BAM

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Last week, BAM’s Harvey Theater presented Steel Hammer, a theatrical working of Pulitzer Prize-winning Julia Wolfe’s 2009 cantata exploring the African-American folk

Tags: African-American, americana, Anne Bogart, Appalachian, BAM, Bang on a Can All Stars, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Emily Eagan, Eric Berryman, folklore, John Henry, Julia Wolfe, Katie Geissinger, minimalistic, Molly Quinn, music, myth, Patrice Johnson Chevannes, Pulitzer Prize, SITI Company, Steel Hammer
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