The Prospect Park banshell hosts two months of music, dancing, film screening, drinking and eating entertainment. The majority of the festival events come with a mere $3 suggested donation to keep the bandshell in business. So cough it up and get out there. Click here for our picks.
Culture Desk Pick!
Live music on Governors Island. Take the ferry, enjoy the beach and stay for the free tunes. Tonight: The Morning Benders w/ Freelance Whales and Wild Nothing.
The L Magazine takes Williamsburg and Greenpoint hostage for four days with their second annual Northside Festival. While there are hundreds and hundreds of bands in this musi-plosion, click here for a curated list of our picks.
Every Thursday until August 5, at high-noon in downtown Brooklyn, hip-hop and world music can be found. For free! It's all part of BAM's R&B Festival held on the lawn at MetroTech Commons.
Brian Lehrer Listener Pick! (suggested by Sandra)
Tinariwen, Omar Souleyman, Toubab Krewe
Energizing rock rhythms and unexpected up-tempo dance beats from Africa and the Middle East will make you rethink party music.
Brian Lehrer Listener Pick! (suggested by Sandra)
Tinariwen are a band of Tuareg nomad revolutionaries from the Sahara Desert who play amazing psychedelic rock music! Also on the bill is Syrian pop star Omar Souleyman.
Bang On A Can notes its marathon as "Lollapalooza advised by the ghost of John Cage". It's a mass of musicians, composers, and listeners collaborating on uninterrupted live ear-bending border-crossing music from around the corner and around the globe. The performace is from noon til midnight (in 2007 it lasted 27 hours and 10 minutes!) and this year, its 23rd year, the World Financial Center Winter Garden plays host.
Culture Desk Pick!
High Places and Toro Y Moi.
Free concert at The Whitney's lower gallery and sculpture court with admission. No fear, it's pay-what-you-wish on Fridays from 6-9pm. But note, there are no special tickets or reservations. So if your summer Fridays haven't started, or don't exist, jump uptown right after work to guarantee a spot downstairs.
See Dean & Britta's accompaniment written for short Andy Warhol films and join the cast and band from the hit Broadway musical Fela! for a live performance on Soundcheck from The Greene Space.
Q2 Music and Soundcheck mark the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" with performance by pianist Vicky Chow and conversation with Sarah Fishko on her exploration of the era, "Culture Shock 1913." Watch on-demand video here.
Celebrate David Dubal's return to WQXR's airwaves with this evening of conversation and performance exploring Romantic piano literature. Watch video of the event on demand here.
An evening of music, storytelling and conversation. Hosted by Soundcheck's John Schaefer. Watch on-demand video of the entire event.
In celebration of the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, WQXR’s Operavore and Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts present a special preview of the Caramoor Summer Music Festival’s annual Bel Canto at Caramoor. Watch on-demand video here.
Join us for an evening of music from Central Europe, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Middle East — and Uganda! Featuring East of the River, Shashmaqam and The Dave Levitt Klezmer Trio.
Celebrate the season with the superstar violinist as he makes The Greene Space his living room for an exclusive evening of holiday music. Watch a live video webcast!
In an exclusive New York performance, the legendary Canadian Brass, beloved for their virtuosity, versatility and mad-cap showmanship, perform from their all-new CD Christmas Time is Here, featuring classics from some of the most popular animated specials created for the holidays.
WQXR is a media sponsor of Voices of Ascension's concert at the Church of Ascension on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
After 11 years, they return to the Ein Deutsches Requiem of Johannes Brahms. Unlike the Requiems of Mozart, Verdi and others, Brahms abandoned the Latin Mass for the Dead and constructed his own collection of texts from the Bible, in his native tongue. In doing so, his German Requiem offers something different from all the others: it is a work of consolation for those left behind. For this performance Voices of Ascension will be using Brahms' own four-hand piano version. This version was heard at the first London performance in 1871 and at many other performances during Brahms's lifetime. The concert will begin with another masterpiece, this one for piano solo: the Sonata No. 32 in C Minor; Op. 111 by Ludwig van Beethoven, played by Anna Shelest. In contrast to the very human qualities of the Brahms, Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 111 is a work of a composer, near the end of his life, whose mind has already entered into another world. This remarkable, seemingly abstract work pulls us, little by little, into Beethoven's immense, timeless version. It will be a profound experience to hear this great work in the acoustics of Ascension, and then to enter into the warmth and humanity of Brahms. Soloists include Soprano Martha Guth and Baritone Richard Zeller.
Fri, Jan. 31 | Q2 Music presents Brooklyn-based indie trio Hospitality, teamed up with the new-music wunderkinds Face the Music, to kick off the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival. Watch a live video webcast of this sold-out show at 7pm ET.
WNYC is a media partner for the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce’s, Friday Night in Harlem, jazz and gospel concert featuring Alex Bugnon, Valerie Simpson and more. Friday January 31 at the Apollo Theater.
Join Q2 Music’s Helga Davis and New Tech City’s Manoush Zomorodi for an evening of music and mind. With iconic performance artist, composer and musician Laurie Anderson and Mary Farbood, assistant professor in the Music Technology program at New York University. Watch the live video webcast here at 7pm ET!
