Category Archives: music

The Passion with passion

Posted on April 10, 2017 by

The best of New York is not on Broadway this week. Just follow the church bells and you will find outstanding performances of music and theater that transcend religious commitment. The playbill has more to come, but on Palm Sunday, … Continue reading →

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Wild side

Posted on March 30, 2017 by

Lou Reed may have walked on the wild side, but he had a lot of baggage. Three hundred linear feet to be accurate. Or at least that is what his bequeath to the New York Public Library amounts to. A … Continue reading →

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Spliced Surprise

Posted on September 22, 2016 by

Bell ringers have had bad press for too long. Quasimodo started it all, Marty Feldman didn’t help just by hunchback association, and Macbeth filled our youthful imagination with foreboding, the sound of the bells summoning us to heaven – or … Continue reading →

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Balmy and Baroque

Posted on September 11, 2016 by

Heaven and Earth became as one last night when the Trinity Church‘s Baroque Orchestra performed their last concert for the summer. Breathless and sticky from the spontaneous sprint downtown, I was ushered gently into a padded pew, from where phones … Continue reading →

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Midsummer merengue

Posted on June 23, 2016 by

The Midsummer Night Swing in Lincoln Centre has to be up there with the most fun, all time favorite events of NYC. Salsa was on the menu tonight and the Latino flavor was so all embracing that Castro or El … Continue reading →

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This little light of mine

Posted on January 26, 2016 by

In Sugar Hill, named for the Harlem Renaissance, a building called the triple nickel used to be the home of Count Basie, Lena Horne and Paul Robeson –  and the heart of the jazz scene. Thanks to Marjorie Eliot it … Continue reading →

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Ecstatic Music Festival

Posted on January 18, 2015 by

The name of the festival was motivation enough for me to venture out on a cold January night for a little recreation. Ecstatic music and the Shakedown Dance Collective seemed an excellent pairing and the promise of lively percussion under … Continue reading →

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Tap City

Posted on July 14, 2014 by

Tap City showed that you didn’t need two arms – or even tap shoes, to be part of the hoofers sharing rhythm in downtown Manhattan yesterday. Young people of all shapes and sizes clapped and stomped in a seemingly effortless … Continue reading →

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House Music

Posted on June 19, 2014 by

House Music took on a whole new meaning in Midtown Manhattan last night. I had the great privilege of being invited to a ‘small house concert’ by Rupert Boyd, who was playing classical guitar, accompanied by his fiancé Laura Metcalf … Continue reading →

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NY Historical Society

Posted on April 10, 2014 by

There is more to the New York Historical Society than chronicles. Last Friday night Abe Lincoln was standing on the front steps to welcome me as I dashed past in the rain, blurring a photo op but not able to … Continue reading →

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