The band Puzzled Panther, with our own Kay Bontempo (far left), opened for Gogol Bordello and Murphy’s Law on the New Year’s Eve at Brooklyn Bowl. Other band mates included (from left): Eugene Hütz, Victoria Espinoza, Brian Chase, Rob Mellinger. Photo: Tatiana Labunets Kicking Off a Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Was Thrill for Our Reporter My New York City based band Kicked off 2023 with a New Year’s Eve gig to remember. After two years of relatively muted New... News 09 Jan 2023 | 01:05
Performing in “Songs in Flight” (left to right): Karen Slack, Reginald Mobley, Will Liverman, Howard Watkins, Rhiannon Giddens. Photo courtesy of The Met Museum ‘Songs in Flight’ Connects Past to Present In 2019 a team at Cornell University started compiling a database of ads posted by enslavers searching for runaway enslaved... City Arts 30 Dec 2022 | 01:00
Jane Ira Bloom. Photo: Brigitte Lacombe Immersed in a World of Jazz and Space Jane Ira Bloom began playing the saxophone at age 9 and said she choose the instrument because it was shiny. “It’s a fact.... News 05 Dec 2022 | 10:10
Met Opera Orchestra violinist Amy Kauffman. Photo: Pedro Diaz Meet a Member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra The Met Opera is known as one of the best and most prestigious opera houses in the world, attracting thousands of music lovers... News 09 Nov 2022 | 12:57
Teatro Nuovo’s Jakob Lehmann (left) and Will Crutchfield (right). Photo: Steven Pisano ‘Maometto Secondo’ – A Dream Twice Deferred Teatro Nuovo, founded by conductor Will Crutchfield, specializes in performing concerts of early 19th century Italian operas... News 10 Oct 2022 | 03:22
Malcolm J. Merriweather, Music Director/Conductor of The Dessoff Choirs and newly appointed Director of New York Philharmonic Choir. Photo: Stephanie Berger Listening to His Musicians When he was growing up singing in the children’s choir at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Buffalo, Malcolm J. Merriweather could... News 03 Oct 2022 | 09:06
Composer Eric Schorr. Photo: Philip Smith Setting Poetry to ‘Mini-Musicals’ Composer Eric Schorr is a musical chameleon. The Boston-born, New York based composer has written music for a variety of... City Arts 29 Aug 2022 | 02:14
Swingtime “Gal vocalist” Bobbie Ruth returns with the band to Carl Schurz Park to pay tribute to superstar vocalists Doris Day and Judy Garland. Photo courtesy of Swingtime Swing at Schurz and Jazz in July: The UES Summer Music Scene Upper East Side music lovers are in luck. This month, two music groups will be making their return to the neighborhood. Steve... News 15 Jul 2022 | 12:33
“The whole history of the place is very, very unique,” says guitarist Jakob Bro of the Village Vanguard. Photo: Zachary Weg Jakob Bro Lifts a Candle at the Vanguard At the Village Vanguard last night, Jakob Bro raised a candle. The forty-four-year-old Danish jazz guitarist may not have... News 08 Jul 2022 | 01:35
Mina Kim, conductor of the Purchase Symphony Orchestra, was one of two pianists for the starting event of the day at Battery Park. Photo: Ralph Spielman Make Music America, New York Style June 21 dawned as an average day in Manhattan, but, by sunset, a lot of tired musicians and listeners had the rare experience... News 22 Jun 2022 | 12:19
Photo of Stefanos Koroneos courtesy of Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy, New York Verona on the Hudson On June 4 and 5, Teatro Grattacielo presents Riccardo Zandonai’s 1922 “Giulietta e Romeo” staged outdoors and free in Robert... City Arts 20 May 2022 | 11:20
The cast of “La Dame Blanche”: Left Column: Katy Lindhart, Kofi Hayford, Joe Lodato. Middle Column: Steven Herring, Andrew Dwan, Maestro Keith Chambers. Right Column: Arnold Livingston Geis, Kathleen Norchi, Laura Zahn. Photo courtesy of NewAmsterdamOpera.org Rare Operatic Birds Take Flight This Spring Small opera companies need to take different routes in order to stand out and compete against the wealthier and more international... City Arts 12 May 2022 | 08:15
Leerone Hakami and Shay Slusky of West Amadeus Music Studio. Photo: Kay Bontempo ‘Do You Want These Concerts?’ For Leerone Hakami and Shay Slusky, as for nearly all New York City’s professional musicians, the beginning of the COVID-19... City Arts 02 May 2022 | 09:51
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will perform “The Best of Duke Ellington” June 10–11. Photo: Frank Stewart The Sounds of Sunshine Spring and summer in the city just sound different. Catch the buzz with live music indoors, outdoors, or online. It’ll be... City Arts 13 Apr 2022 | 03:01
Ethan Heard (left) in rehearsal for the 2022 Heartbeat Opera production of “Fidelio.” Photo: Russ Rowland A 200-Year-Old German Opera Speaks to 21st Century America Heartbeat Opera put itself on the map in Spring 2018 with a radical reworking of Beethoven’s 1805 opera “Fidelio.” The New... News 29 Jan 2022 | 10:05
