Jon Sobel

A gusan (or gōsān) was a minstrel, or poet-musician, of Persia during late antiquity. More than 30 y

I’ve traveled the highways and alleys of contemporary and avant-garde music on and off for almost half a century. These days I still listen to a lot of it, and write about it. Yet I still have trouble with certain strains of 20th-century music. Last night’s concert by the Horszowski Trio, part of the Village Trip Festival, served up some wonderful Brahms; a bracing new work by William Kentner Anderson; and an “Homage to the New York School” that touched on some of the 20th-century music that has never worked for me. All in a day’s work here at Blogcritics!

Words from Eleanor Roosevelt and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Music from Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirklan

On his new album La cétoine qui dort dans le cœur de la rose cellist Dan Barrett and collaborators p

Pianist Orli Shaham's concert featuring the music of Clara Schumann at the Kaufman Music Center last

Has there been a more influential instrument than the guitar in the past 75 years of music? In the W

A tremendous, lit globe of the Earth rotates slowly in the air. The choir files into the huge central chamber of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They

Going for a cabaret vibe at a vocalist’s recital can be tricky. Without the clink of glasses and the dark hum of the theater, performances that focus on intimate bonding between performer and audience can feel awkward. Thanks to the personality/persona of tenor Ben Bliss, he and pianist Christopher Allen avoided this at the elegant Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory on Friday night. A cabaret feeling did arise, especially during the first set, at their genre-spanning show of American songs.

Back in January, I was at Merkin Hall when pianist Chengcheng Ma gave his New York City solo recital

Young Concert Artists (YCA) has been helping launch exceptional musicians into classical music caree