Topic: Bang on a Can

The week’s best festivals: Jan 26–Feb 1

The Museum at Eldridge Street's WinterGreen Festival Sunday 29 Indulge in the bounty of Israel's most popular crops by celebrating Tu B'shvat, also...
Gay Pride Week Festivities Harlem Pride Weekend Celebration -- Harlem is hosting a weekend of Pride parties and events this year -- starting on Friday night with a launch party at Billie's Black and including a Saturday street party with celebrity guests. New ...

The best shows to see all season

The summer's top acts On what they want to see this season, and what they're listening to right now. Free (or super-cheap) summer concerts Rock out all June, July and August without burning through your savings account.. Classical music concerts ...

Caption Contest: Big Ears Fest Giveaway!

Taking a cue from Zach Wamp, Obama aligns himself with a celebrity.... Thanks for playing, everyone!. Gold told you about the Big Ears Fest going down in Knoxville this weekend, but if you missed that, the short version is there's a ...
Next week, SXSW will kick off the 2010 festival season, which will reach critical mass in the U.S. with Middle Tennessee's very own Bonnaroo festival in June. A mere two weeks away, this East Tennessee carnival of ear candy features ...

Bang on a Can

Among its marathons, MASS MoCA residencies and marching bands, the composers' collective Bang on a Can still manages to pursue its mission of fostering the creation of new music. Swiss pianist and composer Nik B?rtsch brings his classical, jazz and Zen-funk ...

Post-rock titans

Since releasing its seminal debut, Young Team (see "Hall of fame," right) in 1997, the not-to-be-fed-after-midnight crew has put out record after record of intense, soaring, sometimes deafening guitar rock. Touring behind The Hawk Is Howling, the quintet plays the Music Hall ...

Dream weaver

As one of the founding fathers of Minimalism in the 1960s, Terry Riley has long explored the properties of repetition, drone and extended durations in his trance-enhancing compositions and performances. This year's release of a lost 1978 concert recording, Last Camel ...
The most exciting story of the fall classical season is the much anticipated opening of (Le) Poisson Rouge in the old Village Gate space on Bleecker Street. Get the full effect when LPR presents its first gallery show, of works by Chuck ...

Symphony in Black

Yaniv Segal, Conducting Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, by Mozart . An advocate of blowing the roof off the joint. Yaniv Segal conducts the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor with the Chelsea Symphony at St. Paul Lutheran Church in ...