Category
Concert
I always find it interesting to read discussions on the validity of extended techniques and less con...
Author
Steven Berryman
The final concert of the San Francisco Symphony’s Mavericks festival began with Steve Reich’s Music...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
In keeping with the idea of the Mavericks Festival presenting “new classics,” the entire first half...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho is in residence at Carnegie Hall this season, and this past Monday n...
Author
David Pearson
On March 3, NYC new music hotspot The Kitchen packed the house for the final performance of the worl...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Gene Pritsker is a musician who understands the importance of frequent experimentation when devising...
Author
Evan Burke
The third concert in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Marvericks series (fourth if the new Harr...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
On Saturday, February 25th, Roomful of Teeth gave an exciting concert on the Ecstatic Music Festival...
Author
Lauren Ishida
2012 is an important year for Bang on a Can and it looks like it will be paved with a series of exci...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The San Francisco Symphony’s Centennial Season has featured many interesting events, notably lengthe...
Author
David Gottlieb
In a museum, 1,000 years from now, beside the wing of long extinct animals that contains the taxider...
Author
Elias Blumm
Pianist Ursula Oppens and the Jack String Quartet provided insightful performances of music by two o...
Author
David Pearson
Nick Zammuto and Jason Treuting with Janus, Daisy Press, and Grey McMurray @ Ecstatic Music Festival
Frank Zappa famously asked, “Does humor belong in music?”. He asked this question using an absurdist...
Author
Evan Burke
For a vegetarian, going to a vegetarian restaurant (or an allergen free restaurant for someone suffe...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The Fast Forward Austin new music festival brought the noise to NYC with a concert February 23rd at...
Author
David Pearson
The Crouch End Festival Chorus, directed by David Temple, has established itself as a leading chorus...
Author
Steven Berryman
The Premiere Commission 10th Anniversary Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, February 13th, 2012, featured...
Author
Matt Weber
Music is often colorfully compared to alchemy. Both arts involve the careful meeting of scientific l...
Author
Evan Burke
The length of an usual article on this blog would probably not be enough to merely list the differen...
Author
Matt Weber
On January 26, I spent the evening at Le Poisson Rouge for a show called Indie-Classical Guitars: Mu...
Author
Evan Flath
This year’s edition of Ecstatic Music Festival just started and even if it won’t feature Judd Greens...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The Kronos Quartet completed their week-long residence with the Barbican Centre in London with a typ...
Author
Paul Kilbey
