Lisa Marie

photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco The new album Night combines the talents of pianist Simone Dinnerstein and singer-songwriter Tift Merritt on which they explore folk, rock and classical music. The pair met in 2008 during an interview with Gramophone Magazine and they started creating material for the new album two years later. "We were coming from completely different directions and taking the risk of extending ourselves into foreign territory to find each other," say Merritt....

The home of the Brooklyn Nets is courting a new crowd. In what is believed to be a first for a major sports and entertainment venue, Barclays Center is offering gender-divided seating for ultra-Orthodox Jews at a public event. About 1,000 seats are being set aside so that Jewish men and women can sit in separate areas -- as is custom -- at a Feb. 28 concert by violinist Itzhak Perlman. The night features Jewish music and cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. The tickets for the aisl...