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Merkin Hall

Marcos Balter Concert -- Courtesy of Kaufman Music Center

Remixed and Reimagined: Inspired Collaboration Drives an Exciting Performance of Marcos Balter’s Three Enigmas at Merkin Hall

On Oct. 9 at Merkin Hall, the Kaufman Music Center presented the second installment in this season’s...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Soloist Dana Whiteside in

New Oratorio by Tracy K. Smith and Aaron Siegel Gives Voice to Civil War-Era African American Troops

Merkin Hall is a beautiful venue, warm in both temperature and acoustics. On Nov. 2, Tracy K. Smith,...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
JACK Quartet--Photo by Joan Jastrebski

JACK Quartet Premieres Three New Works at Merkin Hall

JACK Quartet left the audience awestruck by the complexity, layers, and ideas of truly innovative mu...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
New York Festival of Song

“Hyphenated-Americans” at NYFOS Features Multicultural Vocal Music

On February 20th at Merkin Hall, the New York Festival of Song‘s “Hyphenated-Americans&#...
Author
Tristan McKay
Margaret Leng Tan

Margaret Leng Tan Performs “Cage, Crumb, and Beyond” at Ecstatic Music Festival

On Thursday, April 26, 2018 at Merkin Hall, Margaret Leng Tan performed a program entitled “Cage, Cr...
Author
Tristan McKay
Photo by David Andrako

Music from Copland House and Music from China, part of the Ecstatic Music Festival @ Merkin Hall

Chinese composers, writing in the second half of the twentieth century, faced a problem: how to writ...
Author
Evan Burke
David Bloom

5 questions to David Bloom (conductor, co-artistic director of Contemporaneous)

Contemporaneous’ bio states that the ensemble is “dedicated to performing the most excit...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
John Darnielle, Anonymous 4, Owen Pallett - Photo by David Andrako

The Mountain Goats and Anonymous 4: voices from the past, words for the present

Ask a fan of The Mountain Goats what they listen for in the music of John Darnielle and there's a ve...
Author
Elias Blumm
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Nick Zammuto and Jason Treuting with Janus, Daisy Press, and Grey McMurray @ Ecstatic Music Festival

Frank Zappa famously asked, “Does humor belong in music?”. He asked this question using an absurdist...
Author
Evan Burke
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yMusic, Richard Reed Parry and Son Lux at Merkin Hall

For a vegetarian, going to a vegetarian restaurant (or an allergen free restaurant for someone suffe...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Sxip Shirey and Angélica Negrón at Ecstatic Music Festival

The length of an usual article on this blog would probably not be enough to merely list the differen...
Author
Matt Weber
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Jherek Bischoff and the Wordless Music Orchestra open the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival

This year’s edition of Ecstatic Music Festival just started and even if it won’t feature Judd Greens...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

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