On Thursday evening, March 26, the New York Philharmonic will debut Marc Neikrug’s Concerto for Orchestra, which was commissioned for the NYPhil last year: When Alan Gilbert was at Vail…
The great ones don’t look for music; music finds them. Ordinary people can learn to play and maybe even perform but the great ones are born with it. They live it…and…
I prefer to say that I consider myself a writer of music more than a composer. I just try to tell stories through the music narrative. I do this in…
Igudesman & Joo, Carnegie Hall, April 17
Help me out here. A couple of my acquaintance are celebrating their 40th anniversary in New Orleans in a couple of weeks and asked me where they should go for…
I was sitting in the S21 headquarters–Starbucks on 57th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues–sipping a latte and trying to guess which of the several attractive Asian-American women in the…
ISSUE Project Room is looking for a Marketing Coordinator to fill a part-time contracted position. The position requires coordination of the website and multiple modes of print, in order to…
At a dinner party in the Hamptons attended by your correspondent many years ago, the late and legendary editor Willie Morris averred–this was at a point in the evening when…
Dina Koston was a unique figure in the Washington music scene. A composer and pianist, she was the Iron Lady behind the Theater Chamber Players, a pioneering ensemble that tackled…
It was not a great year for movies, in my humble opinion. But like they say in the most obnoxious Bud commercials yet: here we go. The Top Ten Movies…