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Konstantin Lifschitz at the Town HallThe New York Times, May 29, 2007
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The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at P.S. 122The New York Times, May 24, 2007
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Louis Karchin’s Romulus at the Guggenheim Museum and Nemanja Radulovic and Susan Manoff at Weill Recital HallThe New York Times, May 22, 2007
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(Posted today on the TONY Blog) In one of the mostly starkly dramatic moments of "I have some light: Songs of Spirit," the song recital presented by opera soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird and pianist Jocelyn Dueck on Thursday night (May 17) at Gallerie Icosahedron in Tribeca, no music was played at all. The program put it…
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(Posted today on the TONY Blog) What is it that makes Suzanne Vega so sexy? It’s not in what she tells us, but what she refuses to reveal. The stories she’s told over the past 20-plus years have been crammed with detail. But in the best of them, she somehow suggests a worldliness that she…
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Sorry about the continued silence…my home Internet connection has mysteriously taken a powder. Hopefully things will be up and running again soon.
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Charles Rosen at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, May 15, 2007
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Musicians from Marlboro at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtandBrooklyn Philharmonic with the Ridge Theater at BAMThe New York Times, May 14, 2007
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This would be a pretty boring blog if all I did was link to articles I’ve written elsewhere. But given my drive to and from Richmond over the weekend, as well as work-related pressures, I’ve only been out to see one performance during the last week: the Met’s rather fabulous Orfeo ed Euridice. At the…
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"A Violinist to Listen to, Maybe After a Download"The New York Times, May 5, 2007 An article about Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, who makes her debut on the big stage at Carnegie Hall Saturday night (May 5) with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She’ll be playing the Mendelssohn concerto; Orpheus boldly opens with two pieces by…
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Back in March, I reviewed a concert celebating composer David Del Tredici’s 70th birthday, presented at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. At the end of the post, I listed every subsequent NYC-area performance of Del Tredici’s music that I could find through an evening of earnest Googling. This week, both Del Tredici and composer-conductor Joshua…
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NewMusicMannes at Mannes College the New School for MusicThe New York Times, May 2, 2007
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That’s why I have mixed feelings about Mr. Coleman’s Pulitzer. Should the jury have stretched the rules well past the breaking point in order to give it to him? I wish I could say yes. He deserves it, and so does jazz. Yet I can’t help but recall the footrace in "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"…
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Opus 21 at the Leonard Nimoy ThaliaThe New York Times, May 1, 2007
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, April 30, 2007
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CD review: Andrew Russo – "Dirty Little Secret"Andrew Russo, pianistEndeavor Classics END 1019; CDThe New York Times, April 29, 2007(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble) The performance by Russo and his trio Real Quiet on Monday, April 30 that’s mentioned in the second paragraph of this review is the latest installment of Ronen Givony’s invaluable Wordless Music…
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The Norwegian black-metal band Dimmu Borgir released its first new studio album in four years, In Sorte Diaboli, on Tuesday, but you might not have guessed as much from the first hour of the set the band played at the Nokia Theatre Times Square on Thursday night. The new disc, a very strong one, is…
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Midori and Robert McDonald at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 26, 2007 ===== I seldom add remarks and enable comments when I post my Times reviews, but just this once I’ll make an exception. Before a last-minute swerve found me at Avery Fisher Hall for the Midori recital — which I didn’t regret…
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Back in 1976, violinist Olga Bloom had the offbeat notion of mooring an inactive coffee barge at Fulton Ferry Landing, near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, and converting it into a floating chamber-music space. (The story can be read here.) Thirty-plus years later, Bargemusic remains one of New York’s busiest, liveliest concert halls: for…
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Edgar Meyer and Emanuel Ax at Zankel HallThe New York Times, April 24, 2007
Night After Night 