Free as a Bird in Spring
When you’re in a town with a good university or two, spring always brings a sudden flood of concerts and recitals, almost all of them free. It’s kind of like having a…
What music can do: Thomas Buckner
At 66, baritone Thomas Buckner says he’s busier now than he was when in his forties. Last month, when we sat down to chat, he had just come back from…
Five Things about BMOP@MATA
I caught the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) at the MATA Festival Tuesday night in Brooklyn. 1. Gil Rose and BMOP played a varied concert with conviction and panache Tuesday…
Back from the Brink
At the start of 2007, I told you about my composer/sound-artist pal Chris DeLaurenti’s great new CD release, Favorite Intermissions. A collection of recordings made during symphony concerts around the country, of…
Bruce Almighty
I must confess that I had never heard of pianist Bruce Levingston until he called me a couple of weeks ago. That is clearly an oversight on my part since a couple of…
From Iraq: Last Letter Home
Music by Lee Hoiby, performed by Andrew Garland and Lee Hoiby [youtube]5wqnPjkqu20[/youtube] 550,000 views and counting.
Going to Carolina in My Mind
After Austrian born composer and conductor Peter Paul Fuchs died about a year ago in North Carolina our English home Pliable wrote two short tributes to him On An Overgrown Path with John…
Monday Late-Night Roundup
Elizabeth Brown and other cutting-edge stuff coming up at the Issue Project Room… All kinds of funny business going on at the Brooklyn Philharmonic, world premiere by Susan Oetgen coming…
Keys to the Future piano festival: Preview Evening 3 Thursday, March 27 8PM
The Keys to the Future festival, at Greenwich House’s Renee Weiler Concert Hall, presents 3 consecutive nights of recent solo piano music – each concert features 4 pianists. The fundamental…
Where We Live
The world has always been violent, hence the classical desire to restrain the beast within. But is this kind of art enough when the world seems to spin out of…