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The arched entryway at McCarren Pool. (mercurialn/flickr)
Summer is winding down. Today, we find out about some of the best music events in the season's final days. Later: Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool is set to present its final concert this weekend. We look back at a venue that made a big splash in New York. And later: art-song composer Gabriel Kahane performs live.
Summer's Last Strains
For some, Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer, but there's still great music to be enjoyed in the final days of the sunny-weather concert season. Music writer Mike Wolf joins us for an overview.
Mike Wolf's picks for end-of-summer music:
Xiu Xiu + Evangelista
Bowery Ballroom, tonight
Oneida ...
Mike Wolf's picks for end-of-summer music:
Xiu Xiu + Evangelista
Bowery Ballroom, tonight
Oneida ...
McCarren Pool's Swan Song
In just three years, McCarren Park Pool became a focal point of New York's summer concert season. Now, the city plans to rehabilitate and re-open the pool. With a final concert headlined by Sonic Youth set for this weekend, New York Times arts reporter Melena Ryzik joins us for a ...
Gabriel Kahane
Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane is part of a new generation of art-song composers whose music defies easy classification. On his self-titled debut album, due out this fall, he writes wry observational songs that incorporate the sounds of string quartets, folk, brass chorales and jangly piano pop. He joins us to perform ...
McCarren Pool's Swan Song
McCarren Park Pool is closing. Well, not closing forever, but when it reopens, it will be as a pool. For the past 3 summers, McCarren has been one of the hottest music venues in New York – a place to watch the most ...