Songwriter Ed Sheeran (left) being interviewed by co-host Jack Coyne, is among the celebrities who have made their way to Astor Place to appear on “Trackstar*,’ a music trivia contest that has nearly 200,000 followers on Tik Tok. Photo: Courtesy Public Opinion Inc. Three Co-hosts of Fast Growing Tik Tok Music Trivia Show Find Their Groove in Astor Place “Name the artist win $.” That’s the sign that the three co-hosts of a music trivia show called “Trackstar*” – two brothers,... City Arts 28 Dec 2023 | 05:40
The Brass Queens, an all-female brass band with an impressive repertoire of performances, are among the finalists for the Riders’ Choice Awards ( Photo: Brass Queens Twitter ) Resounding Triumph: All-Female Band ‘Brass Queens’ Wins Inaugural Riders’ Choice Awards Call it the Grammys for subway buskers—the first-ever Riders’ Choice Award is here. Voting closed Wednesday with the all-female... News 28 Jul 2023 | 01:45
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
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
“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
Woody Guthrie in 1943. Photo: Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons Woody Guthrie’s Land is Our Land I liked the way he played and sang. And I liked the things he said when he sang ... I was like a Woody Guthrie jukebox. I... City Arts 15 Jan 2022 | 06:03
