The Music Stops
"How do you keep the music playing?How do you make it last?How do you keep the song from fadingToo fast?" – Alan and Marilyn Bergman, "How Do You Keep the […]
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Kelly Moran at Roulette
The prepared piano – where a pianist places screws, forks and other foreign objects on the piano strings to create strange, eerie timbres – has long had a place in
Hypercube at the DiMenna Center
(Photo: Michael Yu) Sometimes, when I look through all of the new music listings in NYC, it's honestly hard to tell one group from the next. And, with most of
Ticket Giveaway: HYPERCUBE at the DiMenna Center on May 7
NYC-based new music ensemble HYPERCUBE has built a reputation for high-energy performances using the somewhat unusual combination of instruments: saxophone, acoustic/electric guitar, piano/accordion, and percussion. Next Tuesday, May 7, they'll be
A Thousand Thoughts: Kronos Quartet with Sam Green at The Town Hall
"The string quartet repertoire was probably changed more by (Kronos Quartet) than by any other group." – Philip Glass What is a string quartet? That seems to have been the
HereNowHear Piano Duo Closes Kettle Corn New Music’s 6th Season
by Nick Stubblefield HereNowHear, the dynamic new-music piano duo of Andrew Zhou and Ryan McCullough, closed out Kettle Corn New Music’s sixth season at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Winter Jazzfest 2019: Medeski Martin & Wood with Alarm Will Sound at Brooklyn Steel
Winter Jazzfest ventured out to Bushwick's Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday night for a special evening with Medeski Martin and Wood and contemporary chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound. For nearly 30
“The Mile Long Opera” on The High Line
Composer David Lang has never been comfortable with standards of music presentation. Thirty years ago, he – along with Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe – founded Bang on a Can
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Foreign Bodies” at the New York Philharmonic
Photo: Chris Lee, NY Philharmonic When the New York Philharmonic reached out to Esa-Pekka Salonen several years ago to ask him to become an artistic partner, it was not, as