AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 10hBack in Carnegie Hall after its September hiatus, for some delightful chamber music with the Camerata Nordica Octet 000
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Last night was a spelling bee, though with more music than I remember from my own middle school spelling bees. 040
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And tonight, some contemporary classics and soundpainting with MSM's Tactus Ensemble 021
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And the evening concluded with cool new works written and performed by members of the Wet Ink Ensemble 120
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Starting the evening with some ambient organ and electronics with Chalemagne Palestine 000
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Gotta love when the weekend subway route changes are so complicated the train's information system just gives up. (But also, the weekend route maps in the app now are fantastic...) 030
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This afternoon is Lise Davidsen and Quinn Kelsey in Macbeth 060
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tonight is an album release concert for the latest volume of Claire Chase's Density 2036 project featuring Terry Riley's Holy Liftoff, with the JACK Quartet. 120
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Checked out the tarot exhibit at the Morgan Library before their tarot-inspired concert curated by Victoria Bond 262
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The evening began with an amazing Juilliard Rush Hour performance, which was a surprising capacity crowd for Stockhausen, Oliveros, Feldman, and Andriessen. And now I'm upstairs for a celebration of Steve Reich's 90th. 030
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Started the afternoon with some fabulous Baroque chamber music with Repast, and now for some much newer music with the Nu Quintet. 110
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This afternoon was a delightful mix of improvisation, Japanese pieces, and Rhapsody in Blue (for solo piano) with Ryota Kikuchi. And now tonight is New York Polyphony's 20th anniversary concert. 011
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tonight was a fun and funny survey of music from Bach to rock with Nat Zegree, followed by some late-night ramen and katsu curry at Lucky Cat 010
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tonight is three versions of Katherine Young's BIOMES with some excellent performers including one of my faves, Yarn/Wire 020
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The NYPhil season begins tonight with a nice program of Prokofiev and John Adams and a premiere by Zosha Di Castri 130
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tonight is a second annual 80th birthday bash for Itzhak Perlman. Should be fun! 030
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Tonight is a fun program of Russian works for piano four-hands in a lovely loft apartment. I used to love banging out a piano transcription of the 1812, so very much looking forward to this new four-hand version. 070
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Tonight is the first night of the amazing Graphic Content Festival celebrating the centennials of Morton Feldman and Earle Brown. Tonight is the Orange Road Quartet and Matthew Shultheis with Feldman's "Piano and String Quartet" along with choreography by Annie Nikunen. 000
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I appreciate that new editions of Train Sim World carry over DLC from older editions, but this install size is getting a bit ridiculous.... 010
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I always enjoy meeting the creators in FFXIV's annual Rising event, but this year was especially nice as we met the composers. Did make me sad that I wasn't able to snag a ticket to the con-TIKI show at Zankel this year, but hopefully they'll be back. 021
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026After a quiet two weeks, the fall concert season kicks off with countertenor Carlo Vistoli in the beautiful Board of Officers room at the Armory 010
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Tonight is a fun selection of arias from Spanish zarzuelas and operas, and a newish piece in celebration of European unity 040
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Today is a fun assortment of works for the unusual instrumentation of Loadbang (baritone, trumpet, trombone, and bass clarinet) 020
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Tonight is an exciting program of Sofia Gubaidulina for solos and duos 030
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Tonight is the Whitney Biennial's off-site at Little Island, Marina by Julio Torres & Martina Gutierrez. 040
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Night 2 with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, tonight joined by the Met Chorus for what will be the first of two Verdi Requiems I'm hearing this season. 120
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026First of two nights with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, joined tonight by Lise Davidson for Strauss's Four Last Songs 240
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Another fantastic year of the TIME:SPANS festival concludes tonight with the Talea Ensmble 010
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026For the penultimate evening of TIME:SPANS, Alarm Will Sound play Georg Friedrich Haas's political classic In Vain 010
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026No TIME:SPANS tonight, so listening to something a little jazzier, as Hiromi plays her Piano Quintet with the PUBLIQuartet at the Blue Note 030
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026TIME:SPANS continues tonight with the fabulous International Contemporary Ensemble 031
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026TIME:SPANS continues tonight with a long-duration duo for violin and piano by the infamous Sarah Hennies (for anyone who missed it, see bsky.app/profile/sara...) 220
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A large ensemble at TIME:SPANS tonight as the Grossman Ensemble visits from Chicago 040
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026TIME:SPANS continues tonight with more of the Experimentalstudio Freiburg (SWR) on electronics, tonight with two pianos in an hour-long piece by Philippe Manoury. With an opening piece for baritone, violin, and electronics by Kelley Sheehan. 020
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026TIME:SPANS continues tonight with Ning Yu on piano with electronic manipulation by Experimentalstudio Freiburg (SWR) 070
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Night 3 of TIME:SPANS, with the Parker Quartet playing a fabulous selection of Kurtág and a world premiere by Suzanne Farrin 020
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I'd been waiting for the right time to read Little, Big (having put off reading it until the author's preferred text in the long-promised Incunabula edition arrived). With John Crowley's passing and now being a bachelor for a few weeks, it seems like the right time has arrived. 010
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Husband's new Green Card got here just in time. His mother's angioplasty on Sat had complications, so he's now on a plane to Shanghai for a few weeks. We'd have been freaking out if he'd had to go with just the expired card and Receipt Notice extending the expiration that looks so unofficial. 070
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Woohoo! TIME:SPANS 2026 begins tonight, with the Talea Ensemble playing Wolfgang Rihm 040
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Back at the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, tonight featuring the McGill brothers in a new piece by Billy Childs 020
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Filed the I-90 for husband's Green Card renewal on December 24, and received the new card today. Definitely faster than expected, what with everything going on. 130
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Theorbos are such cool-looking instruments. I wouldn't want to have to tune one, though. 060
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Tonight the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra plays Handel and Caroline Shaw. 020
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Tonight is some minimalism with Anthony Roth Costanzo and Sandbox Percussion at the Little Island Amph 130
