reviews & press
- “Live from New York: Small Concert Promoters Salvage the Future,” Van, May 7, 2020
“If we can bring in any people, even at six feet apart, we want to put on concerts,” [Artistic Director Mark Peskanov] continued. “If we have to be exact [about capacity and stage space] we can do that, we’ve been planning that. We are ready at the drop of a hat!”
- “Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour,” New York Times, May 6, 2020
“Weiss: We love Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is so democratic and lively. But we loved the […] charm of the waterfront before the park was built. The River Café and Bargemusic, the concert venue, are left from the old days. Manfredi: We were married at the Barge. We still go to concerts there.”
- “20 Best Things To Do In Dumbo, Brooklyn,” Vacationidea.com, November 4, 2023
- “Eastern Music Festival Orchestra’s ‘Fanfares and Flourishes’ brings audience to its feet at Dana Auditorium,” News and Record (Greensboro, NC), July 7, 2019
- “Eastern Music Festival Presents Khachaturian and Shostakovich Rarities,” CVNC: An Online Arts Journal in North Carolina, July 6, 2019
- “Uncompromising Music Survives on the Brooklyn Waterfront,” New York Times, June 5, 2017
- “Review: Donald Berman Balances Fire and Rhapsody at Bargemusic,” New York Times, May 31, 2015
- “Deviating From the Modern, to Fresh Effect,” New York Times, January 12, 2015
- “Still Music to the Ears, but From Odd Sources,” New York Times, January 5, 2015
- “From Liszt’s Soliloquies to Labor Blues,” New York Times, April 20, 2014
- “A Middle East Mourned and Celebrated in Suites,” New York Times, September 22, 2013
- “Riding the Waves of a Memorial,” New York Times, September 12, 2013
- “An Epitaph for Summer, Etched in the Senses,” New York Times, September 9, 2013
- “Bargemusic’s Labor Day Celebration” on NY1, Sept. 6, 2013
- “Violin and Bass Trombone Finally Meet, and It’s Love,” New York Times, August 30, 2013
- “Bassoon Solos on the Water,” New York Times, August 23, 2013
- “New Music, Defined by Time and Tide,” New York Times, July 15, 2013
- “Where Better to Play a Theremin Than on a Boat?” New York Times, May 27, 2013
- “With Spirit and Variety, a Festival Unfolds Anew,” New York Times, August 30, 2012
- “Music to Rock the Boat Fails to Disturb a Barge,” New York Times, July 9, 2012
- “Bach to Brooklyn” Editorial/Appreciation of Bargemusic founder Olga Bloom, in the New York Times, December 1, 2011
- “Standard Fare Upended, to Reinvent and Explore,” New York Times review, September 4, 2011
- “At Concert Tributes, a Mournful Undercurrent,” New York Times review, September 12, 2010
- “A Music Hall Sways to Its Own Beat,” New York Times, May 20, 2010
