NOW Ensemble

The 2017 Ecstatic Music Festival runs Jan 9 through May 13 at The Kaufman Center in NYC.

The forever-eccentric Dan Deacon is playing his hometown-area fest Fields Festival this summer, and his set will have him performing the new and unreleased piece An Opal Toad With Obsidian Eyes: Movement 1 in its entirety. The piece was written by Dan, and performed by him along with the Calder Quartet and the NOW Ensemble, […]

As mentioned briefly, the Original Cast Recording of Missy Mazzoli‘s opera, Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, is out next week on New Amsterdam Records (whose Red Hook offices took a beating last week from Hurricane Sandy)…

When not inciting mass hysteria in children, Dan Deacon keeps it fancy, and that was the vibe last night at Merkin Concert Hall, his first of two fancy NYC shows this week…

Remember that Dessner brother-curated festival, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which is happening at BAM from May 3-5? And remember how when we posted the National-curated ATP lineup we suggested (for obvious reasons) that it might hint at the BAM lineup…

Speaking of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, the Dessner brother-curated festival coming to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in May (May 3-5 to be exact), I have the names of a few people who will be part of it…

As previously announced, the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of imaginative collaborations between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the intersection of classical and pop music…

There were (more) strings at September 25th’s inaugural show for the Archipelago music series, which happens at Galapagos one Friday a month through next May…

Steve Reich clapping Tonight (5/22) the Undiscovered Islands/New Amsterdam Records series at Galapagos continues with two sets: Sarah Kirkland Snider‘s Penelope performed, guitarist Steven Mackey and singer Rachel Calloway (conducted), and an opening performance…

New Amsterdam Records is putting on Undiscovered Islands, a month-long exhibition of work by label artists and friends at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space (16 Main St in DUMBO)…