Music
Jazz, Featuring Chopin and Bach
You might not think of Le Poisson Rouge as the ideal place for an organ recital: for one thing, it lacks an organ. But an organist can bring a portable one, and that is what Cameron Carpenter did on Tuesday evening, though not without some backstage drama.Mr. Carpenters original plan was to use his own more…
A Debut, an Anniversary and a Springboard for Young Players
An exuberant cacophony greeted audience members entering Riverside Church before a concert by the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra on Tuesday evening, as ensemble members sat onstage energetically rehearsing. Significant collective and individual preparation had clearly gone into their terrific concert, the orchestra´s New York debut appearance, celebrating the 40th anniversary of its founding by more…
The Sounds and Songs of Stanley Cup Rivals
Here at the Wachovia Center, “God Bless America” is performed live by Lauren Hart or with her accompanying a videotape by Kate Smith, who died in 1986. “It´s just so much fun for me,” Hart, wearing her lucky outfit
On the Horns of Abundance: Jazz Festivals Resound
N extraordinary amount of jazz hits New York over the next two weeks: four festivals, about 150 sets, and much of it extracurricular to the usual riches at the clubs. It´s a time of marathons and breadth and goes in heavy for the new: not just youth, but also new aesthetic combinations, new attitudes toward more…
Tapping the Roots of American Music
The closing concert of the enterprising Riverside Symphony´s 29th season, on Wednesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, was a thematic program that pulled together 20th-century works with roots in American vernacular music. It was, in a way, the perfect program for our eclectic, genre-hopping time, not only because it illustrated the porousness between formal and more…
Songs That Rock the Boat, With Heart and Soul, Too
On the face of it, Frank Loesser, one of Broadway´s all-time great wielders of urban slang, and Karen Oberlin, a demure pop-jazz singer who radiates a subdued glamour, are not a natural fit. Had he lived in a later time, Loesser, who died in 1969, might have turned a Martin Scorsese movie like “Raging Bull” more…
Lady Madonna? Gaga Channels Madge in Video
Is Lady Gagas Alejandro Video a Rip-Off or Homage to Madonna? Gagas most-recent single, Alejandro,premiered, fans and music writers have been divided over whether Gaga was trying to flatter the Material Girl or rip-off her best-known videos.Madge has yet to weigh in on the debate. Her rep did not respond to ABCNews.com request for comment. more…