"I believe strongly that what my generation expects out of the concert experience is something very different from what Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall offer."
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Concert Review: Four Nations Ensemble – ‘Music of the Grand Tour’ (NYC, 30 May 2019)
The Four Nations Ensemble vividly evoked in music the 18th century "Grand Tour" tradition with music of Vivaldi, Corelli, Pergolesi and more.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Madame Lynch’
Though colorful and energetic, this collage-like look at Eliza Lynch, the real-life "Queen of Paraguay," falls mostly flat.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec’ from Bated Breath Theatre Company
Through the magic of theater, 'Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec' will bring you into an intimate space where the mind of a great but troubled artist can live on for a new generation.
Read More »Concert-Dance-Drama Review (NYC): ‘Lucretia’ by Cantata Profana
Cantata Profana explores via collage the story of a rape that, according to legend, triggered the fall of the monarchy in ancient Rome.
Read More »Music Review: Jerusalem Quartet – ‘The Yiddish Cabaret’
The new album from the Jerusalem Quartet and soprano Hila Baggio brings back the sound and sensibility of a bygone time and place with skill and high spirits.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows’ by Gina Femia
In Gina Femia's new comedy, girls in a Catholic high school wrestle with the conflicting rights and wrongs of the Church, the permissive society outside, and their own developing minds.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ from Spicy Witch Productions
This new, radically pruned rendition of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' seizes on the theme of the ill treatment of women to create an audacious feminist reading.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Eroica’ (NYC, 17 May 2019)
Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony was a jubilant finish to the American Classical Orchestra's season under Thomas Crawford, showing their mastery of, and ardent feeling for, the classical repertoire.
Read More »Song Premiere: The Iveys – ‘Colors of Honey’
We debut the newest single from the upcoming album by quintessential family band The Iveys.
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