Category Archives: Music

Summerscape 2016 arrives with a full spectrum of the performing arts. The highly anticipated and much beloved festival returns on July 1 to the verdant setting of the Bard College campus. SummerScape 2016 features seven weeks of opera, instrumental music, dance, film … Continue reading →

Reviving important but neglected operas has long been central to Bard SummerScape’s mission, This year’s offering is a fully staged production if Iris, a darkly impressionistic forerunner of Madama Butterfly by Pietro Mascagni. Mascagni’s three-​​​​act opera, Iris, debuted on November 22, 1898 … Continue reading →

Now in its second century Maverick Concerts, true to its name, proves to be in the vanguard with its popular educational Young People’s Concerts series and more recent to the Maverick Concerts offerings, the JAZZ at the Maverick series. On … Continue reading →

Maverick Concerts continues to electrify and enlighten our musical senses as they embark on a new century of music and an increasingly innovative JAZZ series. Saturday  |  July 16  |  8 pm New Century, New Voices I Amir ElSaffar and the Two … Continue reading →

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, more than 800 all-​​​​ages fans packed Brooklyn Bowl to dance, cheer and sing along as a group of world-​​​​class musicians revisited The Band’s Rock of Ages live album. That record, compiled from a series of three shows … Continue reading →

Lolabelle was Laurie Anderson’s beloved rat terrier. “Hello, little bonehead. I’ll love you forever,” is how she greets the puppy in the movie’s hilarious first scene in which she gives birth to her dog. Dreams, memories, and stories of childhood … Continue reading →

In many households it is a Thanksgiving tradition to watch The Last Waltz, the movie version of The Band’s 1976 final concert on Thanksgiving at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. But five years earlier on a few nights leading up to … Continue reading →

The only thing Levon Helm loved as much as good music was a good time. He surely would have loved Halloween 2015 at his house. Blue Chicken, a band composed of former members of Helm’s bands – Jim Weider (guitar) and Randy Ciarlante (drums) … Continue reading →