Philip Glass

Real Quiet joins the Red House Alternatives series with an evening of its signature hard-edged contemporary classical music. Read More

One of the hottest new arrivals of 2009 has set forth on their first European tour, only a short hop across a handful of capital cities – but it is a step up, nonetheless. Read More

(It's a Hopi word meaning "crazy life.") Read More

Today, Mr. Haas presides over the "percussion penthouse" at New York University, a sprawling loft filled with $150,000 in equipment—including drums, gongs, cymbals, marimbas, xylophones, a full set of steel drums, and the world's largest timpani, which Mr. Haas built out of a 100-year-old 6-foot-wide copper kettle once used to churn cheese. Read More

Music critics' lives — a blur of deadlines, headphone cords and modest payments by the word — don't often inspire much fascination. Read More

Music critics' lives — a blur of deadlines, headphone cords and modest payments by the word — don't often inspire much fascination. Read More

As the lights dimmed and hush settled, the excitement for the oncoming performance was utterly palpable. Read More

That's the way music critic Ira Robbins once described the tone of Bob Palmer's writing to me. Read More

The music of the band Headlights combines electronica, chamber-folk and drone-pop, highlighted by minimalist, repetitive keyboard and guitar patterns that bring to mind Brian Eno and Philip Glass jamming with Velocity Girl. Singer Erin Fein, who also plays keyboards, escorts the band through this hypnotic landscape with enchanting vocals that hover somewhere between '60s girl groups, '70s bubblegum and classic shoegaze of the 1980s and '90s. Read More

Tabla Rasa Gallery [224 48th Street in Sunset Park, (718) 833-9100], www.tablarasagallery.com. Music, Opera songs: Regina Opera offers scenes from "Rigoletto," "La Boheme," "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Il Giuramento." $20. 6 pm. Read More