Leonardo DaVinci once said, "Do you know that our souls are composed of music?" Music and religion are intimately linked, and music is one of the most powerful tools to convey religious meaning. As ...

The 2019 Ecstatic Music Festival continued on Saturday (2/16) at The Kauffman Center’s Merkin Hall with a performance from veteran indie rock band Deerhoof and percussion trio Tigue. The night opened ...

NEW YORK — The musicians stood on the Merkin Hall stage in a tight semicircle — flutist on one end, bass clarinetist on the other. One musician bowed at a double bass, while another strummed an ...

Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music Festival returns for its eighth year, bringing together composers and performers from different musical genres for nine, one-night-only performances featuring ...

As previously announced, the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of imaginative collaborations ...

A certain level of creative stasis seems inherent in the term “classical music.” But composer, record label head and festival organizer Judd Greenstein is doing everything he can to shake up that ...

Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music series returns this fall, opening with an exciting pair of online concerts. All Fall 2020 Kaufman Music Center performances are online, filmed in safe, socially ...

The 14-concert Ecstatic Music Festival hits its stride early tomorrow with the Chiara String Quartet performing world premieres of works by wunderkind composer Nico Muhly. Muhly, who began working ...

Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Ravi Coltrane — son of John and Alice Coltrane — talks about the music his mother made after she withdrew... A newly released, not-quite-reissue album has shed ...