Carnegie Hall

The IU String Virtuosi

'The Music of Prince'

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/15/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Deer Tick's John McCauley Likes Booze, Hates Pitchfork

After he graduated high school, John McCauley convinced his parents to let him tour the country playing his guitar rather than going to college. Somehow, they listened, and he birthed Deer Tick, an alt-country band that's since released four records and a handful of EPs. McCauley is now in his mid-t ... More >>

Live: David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, And An All-Star Cast Pay Tribute To The Rolling Stones At Carnegie Hall

The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Carnegie Hall Tuesday, March 13 Better than: Paying $300 to see The Stones. Okay, so maybe most of the audience was old enough to remember the first time they saw Mick Jagger shake his hips and lips on The Ed Sullivan Show. And a sea of salt-an ... More >>

Live: Jay-Z Takes Over Carnegie Hall

Jay-Z Carnegie Hall Monday, February 6 Better than: Slacking off. The age-old question about how one might get to Carnegie Hall rattled in my brain as I headed uptown last night, en route to Jay-Z's first of two performances at the hallowed Midtown space. "Practice" is the cheeky answer that peo ... More >>

Jason Mraz

Judy At Carnegie Hall Comes To The Cineplex!

​I just heard the sound of 10 million gays of a certain age plotzing. But let me explain. Stay All Night--a documentary exploring Judy Garland's legendary performance at Carnegie Hall (the April 23rd, 1961 show)--has just gone into pre-production.

Richard Thompson

The Books Get to Carnegie Hall

Creepy collage artists head uptown, and further underground

Joanna Newsom Is Playing Carnegie Hall

​Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: Release a bewildering triple-CD and date Andy Samberg. It's frankly shocking it took so long, but everyone's favorite mega-baroque harpist hits the big time November 23. Two days before thanksgiving, just FYI. Tickets on sale Monday, link TBA. If her pas ... More >>

Tonight's Joao Gilberto Show At Carnegie Hall Is Cancelled, Alas

​A major highlight of the in-progress (and still plenty loaded) CareFusion Jazz Festival is not to be, alas: Tonight's Carnegie Hall fete with bossa nova deity Joao Gilberto has been canceled due to travel issues. Per the fest's official statement:

Live on the LES with the Punch Brothers

On five wily, omnivorous bluegrass titans

PIANO PHENOM

Young talent hits the gilded stage

NEW THINGS & NEW TIDINGS

Rising star Nico Muhly goes medium-brow

Overshadowing the Shadow

A Carnegie triumph for Mr. Rollins proves that the Sonnymoon is never over

Fork Off

In addition to food fights between the ROC-NY activists and restaurants, some of the activists are throwing rocks at each other

'Voice' Jazz Poll Critics' Ballots

2006 Jazz Supplement Listings

Manna

The jazz event of 2005 is an unknown Carnegie Hall concert that took place 48 years ago.

Jazz

NY Mirror

Naughty & Nice

Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive

Music Room

She plays, the squirrels come, and the birds gather on the tree branch

Music for the Masses

Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

Summer Jazz 2004

Listings

Well Strung: Carter's Musical Present Tied Up With a Bow

Ornette and Others

JVC Bounces Back Right on Schedule

Jazz

Head of the Class

Soprano Lauren Skuce gets high marks

Letters

Say It Isn't So

How Not to Broaden the Jazz Canvas

Supplement

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Clash of the Titans

James Levine and His Met Orchestra Take Down the Stars

Class Act

Orchestral Maneuvers Hit the Mark

Listings

Jazz

In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

A Quartet of Five

Dave Brubeck Cultivates a Crowd, Calibrates Time, and Finds His Wings

Roll Over Beethoven

Progressives Shake Up Classical Music

Dig Boy Dig

Jazz at Lincoln Center Breaks New Ground, but Where Are the Women?

Separate but Equal

Crossing the Great Jazz Divide

Touring the Jazz Museum

JVC 2000 Looks Backward

Cheap Gifts!

Waking Andy Kaufman

Jazz Listings

Compiled by Ginger Adams Otis

Y Not 2K?

As the millennium ends, Modernist Music is making a comeback. Why are we suddenly nostalgic for the formerly new?

Jazz's New Wing

Classical Trash

P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall