Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn's Slow Six walk a tightrope between glacial post-rock and modern classical music; they're equally adept at making swelling waves of Arvo Pärt viola bumblebees as they are manhandling good ... More >>
Selena RicksPerhaps they served metropolitans too... Last night, the Metropolitan Opera treated its Young Associates--a group of young donors--to an experience not usually paired with a night of arias: a cocktail competition inspired by the current production, Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hof ... More >>
If President Obama is a dictator-loving socialist, he has a funny way of showing it: his Administration has refused a request to let the New York Philharmonic go to Cuba for some concerts it had planned for the end of the month. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control denie ... More >>
Summer flings with water, towels, and a romp in the park
The man who gave us Balanchine gets a bouquet of ballets
Like its set, Grendel's big and rocky, with an empty core
American influences advance on the European continent
A history of music-reproduction technology skips a groove
Peter Fletcher repays his debt to music, to every music in the world
The Bad Plus's Equilateral Chamber Jazz
Lou Harrison, 19172003
The Wind of Nature Blows Through Toby Twining's Requiem
The Beata Moon Ensemble Makes Its Maiden Voyage
Philip Glasss New Symphony Eases Us Into the Millennium
Christopher Small Has Books in Him
Modernism Loses Its Grip as the Odometer Turns Over
