Music & Performing Arts

Opera Grows in Brooklyn

Apr 3, 2009 4 min read Music & Performing Arts Opera on Tap Remarkable Theater Brigade

The March 20th presentation of Opera Grows in Brooklyn at Galapagos Art Space [http://www.galapagosartspace.com] in DUMBO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUMBO,_Brooklyn] was well attended by a standing-room-only audience

Nielsen Festival Seeks to Rehumanize Piano Competitions

Mar 27, 2009 4 min read Music & Performing Arts Nielsen Festival Nielsen Piano Festival St. Petersburg Vladimir Nielsen

If playing the piano were an Olympic event, the kids in the Vladimir Nielsen Piano Festival [http://www.nielsenfest.com] would be among the top contenders. The Nielsen Festival and Foundation brings promising

That Kind of Love: An Interview with Pierce Pettis

Mar 20, 2009 5 min read Music & Performing Arts Pierce Pettis songwriting

Pierce Pettis [http://www.piercepettis.com/] is one of today’s most celebrated American songwriters. His songs, tinged with his Appalachian upbringing, have been called “profound,” “beautifully delivered,” “wry,” “sensitive,” and “an integral

When Avant-Garde Becomes Accessible: Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion

Mar 20, 2009 3 min read Music & Performing Arts

Experimental art is usually more deadly than effective. But there is always that rare gem that is wildly in touch with the underpinnings of aestheticism, like a secret passageway down untrod paths of

Brian Eno and Discreet Music

Feb 27, 2009 3 min read Music & Performing Arts Roxy Music Talking Heads U2

Amidst the sturm und drang that is my daily life, I have an end-of-the-day ritual that hasn’t failed me: a hot cup of tea, a fine book, and a copacetic bit of

Opera Grows in Brooklyn

Nielsen Festival Seeks to <br />Rehumanize Piano Competitions

<i>That Kind of Love</i>: <br />An Interview with Pierce Pettis

When Avant-Garde Becomes Accessible: <br />Animal Collective’s <em>Merriweather Post Pavilion</em>

Brian Eno and <em>Discreet Music</em>

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