The Mostly Mozart Festival began at Lincoln Center in 1966 and I’ve wanted to attend since then and now I finally have. Maybe next year I’ll spring for a package to see several of the orchestra, opera, and dance performances and the films. The Festival’s first two seasons were devoted to the music of Mozart […]
The tickets for the concert said doors at 5pm and show at 6pm. Weather forecast was rain and I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend another concert soaking wet. But I forced myself up and out of the house and it was a gorgeous afternoon. When I got to the west side it was after […]
Many years ago – we’re talking late 70s/early 80s – a friend of mine was crazy for Smokey Robinson. Now I liked Smokey. How could you not? He was Motown – he had been there since the start with Berry Gordy. And in addition to all his own hits, he’d written songs for Marvin Gaye, […]
NYC is a great place for music. In Prospect Park, Joe Purdy was opening with The Low Anthem following and The Lone Bellow headlining. Somewhere in Manhattan, Jon Snodgrass was performing. And at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn was Cory Branan with Tim Barry headlining. I had decided that I was going to see Cory […]
Once again rtb and I, along with violaleeblue this year, met on the Great Lawn in Central Park to watch the New York Philharmonic play for free. rtb brought a blanket, we each brought food and drink and we sat down in the oppressive heat and humidity to get some culture. We got a nice […]
Once again, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz hosts concerts at Coney Island. The line-up this year is incredible and it started with Cheap Trick last Friday. The last time they played Coney Island it was raining so hard that the band could only play five songs. Last Friday it was raining and windy and I […]
Wow. Another album (the one rated their best by most) all the way through. Hearing some songs three times in three days. And one song four times and three days. Yet I could have gone back to the Brooklyn Bowl the next night, and the next, and the next, and on to hear the Old […]
Hard to believe but the second night was even better than the first. The band had more energy (I don’t know how after everything they gave us the night before) and the crowd was more energetic and singing and dancing to every song. Even harder to believe was that Rhett looked more beautiful and sexier […]
Ken smiles and speaks! There’s your headline. Not that the Old 97’s playing three nights at the Brooklyn Bowl isn’t great. Or that each night they are performing one of their first three albums isn’t even better. But Ken Bethea (lead guitar) actually breaking out in a wide smile and telling the audience that it […]
Like most everyone else in the mid-1970s, Fleetwood Mac and Rumours were in heavy rotation on my stereo. I hadn’t followed Fleetwood Mac since their beginning in 1967 but was familiar with the incarnation that had Bob Welch on board (and I followed him when he went solo). But there was no avoiding the band […]
