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Peter Matthews

New York, NY

Pete Matthews is a digital media and marketing professional who lives in New York City. At night, he goes to shows.

Interests: Music

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Winter JazzFest 2023 Returns to IRL Performance

by Dan Lehner, Mackenzie Horne and Pete Matthews Happy 2023, all. After two years of cancellations and virtual performances, Winter JazzFest - the annual smörgåsbord of jazz and other forward-thinking music that kicks off the NYC music calendar each year,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 22, 2023 at Feast of Music

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Back to the Berkshires: the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood

by Pete Matthews "Music is one of the most important gifts we've been given from nature. It's all out there: all we need to do is organize the sound sources, and that search is the greatest fun. It's a search... Continue reading

Posted Aug 4, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Summer 2022 Live Music Preview: Out of Town

(all photos by Pete Matthews) In addition to all of the summer music happenings in NYC, things are finally getting back to normal at the festivals and amphitheaters out of town, many of which have been dormant - or half-baked... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2022 at Feast of Music

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The MET Orchestra Returns to Carnegie Hall

by Pete Matthews (All photos by Pete Matthews) Life has never been easy being a member of the MET Orchestra, the concert stage orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera. For 33 weeks a year, these 120 musicians - widely considered to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Phoebe Bridgers with MUNA at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!

by Pete Matthews (All photos by Pete Matthews) Indie folk singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers played the first of two sold out benefit shows last night at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! The massive crowd - mostly female teens and tweens - sang along... Continue reading

Posted Jun 15, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Summer 2022 NYC Live Music Preview

It's that time again when the music moves from inside to outdoors, and after two years of shutdowns and half-full lineups, everything feels back in full swing this summer. It's about f*cking time! Following is a rundown of some of... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Weekend Live Music Preview: 5/27-5/30

I know, it's a holiday weekend and a lot of folks are already on their way to the beach or country. But, for those sticking around, there are some solid musical offerings this weekend. Check it out. Friday 5/27: Saturday... Continue reading

Posted May 26, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Weekend Preview: Metropolis Ensemble Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The weather looks a bit iffy tomorrow, but the rain should hold off just long enough for Metropolis Ensemble's 2nd annual outdoor musical extravaganza Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, featuring the world premieres of 15 newly commissioned works. Over four... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Weekend Preview: Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival

Whether it's the annual Marathon or the summertime Loud Weekend up in the Berkshires, Bang on a Can has mastered the art of wall-to-wall music presentation over the past 35 years. This week, they are expanding to a full weekend... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Music in Time of War: Vienna Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall

(Photo: Steven Pisano) "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein, November, 1963 In dark times such as this, when the world is confronted with the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 3, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Weekend Preview: Vienna Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall

It's been three years since the vaunted Vienna Philharmonic has been to NYC - in pre-COVID times, they came here each year - but they'll be back this weekend with three concerts at Carnegie Hall. Dodging certain protests with the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Weekend Preview: 2/11-2/13

Friday, 2/11 Ethan Iverson at Roulette, 8pm Ever since leaving The Bad Plus, the rock-jazz trio he co-founded in 2000, pianist Ethan Iverson has flourished as a solo artist while also branching out into composition. This double bill features Iverson... Continue reading

Posted Feb 10, 2022 at Feast of Music

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ended its most recent tour of the U.S. with a visit to Carnegie Hall on Monday night. Appropriately enough, it was an all-British program: Britten, Elgar, and Holst.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2022 at Feast of Music

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"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

by Steven Pisano (All photographs by Steven Pisano) Italy is not the first country that comes to mind when considering the Jewish diaspora in Europe. The northern part of the country, however, has long been home to small outposts of... Continue reading

Posted Feb 3, 2022 at Feast of Music

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"The Hang" by Taylor Mac at HERE

by Steven Pisano (All photographs by Steven Pisano) If you haven't been following the career of Taylor Mac, you've been missing out on one of the most protean theater artists of our time. Winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant, International... Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Preview: SongStudio Returns to Carnegie Hall

Photo by Pete Matthews/Feast of Music After going virtual last year, Carnegie Hall's SongStudio returned live to the Resnick Education Wing this week. The Weill Music Institute's premier program for young vocalists, SongStudio offers singers and "collaborative pianists" (a.k.a. accompanists)... Continue reading

Posted Jan 21, 2022 at Feast of Music

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New Year, New Leaf: Igor Levit at Carnegie Hall

Well, it's been a rough couple of months here in NYC. Just when we thought we were almost done with COVID-19, it came roaring back around Thanksgiving, shutting down bars, restaurants - and lots of live music. This month alone... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2022 at Feast of Music

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Patti Smith Comes Home to City Parks Foundation SummerStage in Central Park

Patti Smith at City Parks Foundation SummerStage 9.19.21 Photo: Pete Matthews/Feast of Music If you're a music lover like I am, these past few weeks have been a joyous return, a reminder that music offers its own special form of... Continue reading

Posted Sep 29, 2021 at Feast of Music

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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Close Out BRIC's 2021 Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival

I've had the good fortune to witness the human dynamo that is Trombone Shorty on at least a half-dozen occasions over the past decade, in all sorts of contexts: at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2011, at Carnegie Hall in... Continue reading

Posted Sep 24, 2021 at Feast of Music

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"Sun & Sea" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) The beach season may be winding down along the area's shorelines, but at the Brooklyn Academy of Music it is just starting. After 18 months of its theaters being darkened by the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 23, 2021 at Feast of Music

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Weekend Live Music Preview: 9/17-9/19

The summer may have unofficially ended on Labor Day weekend, but with a delayed reopening to live music thanks to COVID, things are still going strong here in NYC into the third week of September. Good thing we still have... Continue reading

Posted Sep 14, 2021 at Feast of Music

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Thanks, Irwin. Appreciate the feedback - will fix #1 and #2, though I disagree with #3 for a non-scientist, and was even told as much by Johannes Goebel at the event!

Commented Aug 16, 2021 on EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Opens TIME:SPANS Festival at the DiMenna Center at Feast of Music

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EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Opens TIME:SPANS Festival at the DiMenna Center

Acoustics are a funny thing. In most concert halls, you hear the instruments in your head in relation to their position on the stage, regardless of where you sit: violins sound as if they come from the left, basses from... Continue reading

Posted Aug 14, 2021 at Feast of Music

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra Returns to Live Performance at Tanglewood

STOCKBRIDGE, Massachusetts - On a fairly unremarkable Tuesday in March 2020, I decided at the last minute to go see the NY Phil and Louis Langrée perform a concert at David Geffen Hall that included Debussy's Nocturnes and Prelude to... Continue reading

Posted Jul 28, 2021 at Feast of Music

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Louis Andriessen (1939-2021)

Louis Andriessen following the world premiere of Agamemnon at the New York Philharmonic, October 2018 Less than a week following the death of Frederic Rzewski, on Thursday we lost Dutch composer Louis Andriessen at the age of 82. One of... Continue reading

Posted Jul 3, 2021 at Feast of Music

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