by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Since 2011, the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall has presented collaborative concerts by performers and composers in the alternative and […]
Julianna Barwick and ModernMedieval at the Ecstatic Music Festival Read Post »
Most people probably had never heard of Jóhann Jóhannsson before he won the Golden Globe this past January for his score to The Theory of Everything. But the Icelandic composer –
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Drone Mass at the Temple of Dendur Read Post »
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: Roomful of Teeth Perform Music by Eckert, Amidon, Wells and Shaw Read Post »
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
Museum Music: Ryoji Ikeda’s “superposition” at the Met Museum; Sound/Source at MoMA PS1 Read Post »
Apologies for the ad—you can thank the Times—but just had to share this tender, sweet improv by Caroline Shaw, who is making her way to L.A. as we speak with
GRAMMYs 2014 Preview Read Post »
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
Coffee Conversation: Roomful of Teeth’s Brad Wells Read Post »
by Robert Leeper For those of you that left before the end of the three-hour concert at (le) Poisson Rouge Monday night, yes, the New York premiere of Caroline Shaw's
Roomful of Teeth and Holly Herndon at (le) Poisson Rouge Read Post »
