At Celebrate Brooklyn (Photo by Al Pereira)
From the Great Lawn at Central Park to Oyster Bay Music Under the Stars, New York is brimming with free outdoor concerts this summer. Two weeks ago I heard a concert at Prospect Park, home to Celebrate Brooklyn, a festival now in its 30th year. The series is billed […]
I’ve got lots of good music to share this weekend, including Thomas Newman’s score for “Wall-E” on the Friday night film music feature at 9 pm; J. J. Johnson’s “Perceptions,” an ambitious 1961 composition for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and orchestra on Saturday; and Indian mandolin virtuoso U. Srinivas on Sunday. Much more, as well, of […]
This Friday night, I’m hosting a singles event for WNYC’s music-loving listeners. It’ll be a great opportunity for me to meet some of our listeners — and of course, for them to meet one another. While the event will certainly highlight “singlehood,” it will also be a platform for friendships and other ships to set […]
I’ve never listened to music on the subway, until yesterday. While riding the 1 train (whose jingle always reminds of a motive from Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony) I was handed an ipod. As I shuffled through the songs on the gadget, I discovered that the motor-like rhythm that persists throughout Sting’s music seemed the best accompaniment […]
Photo by David Garland
Everything is upside down, in the midst, at the cusp, and on the verge. WNYC is moving today, and these are very exciting times. I’ve finished the mighty task of sorting through 20 years of accumulation (I joined WNYC in 1988). What I didn’t pack was either discarded, passed along to WNYC’s […]
Monday evening I stepped out of MoMA at just the right moment to see the blazingly spectacular alignment of New York’s grid of streets with the setting sun. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, calls this Manhattanhenge. I happened to have my camera with me, so I caught the moment.
Sometimes our presence aligns […]
This week we started a new series: Wordless Music on WNYC, hosted by Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad (who happens to be a musical omnivore and a huge fan of Evening Music). The series explores the place where “classical” and “pop” music intersect and overlap. Created by Ronen Givony, Wordless Music concerts create a distinctive concert experience […]