Our music day continues here at Counter Critic. Steve Smith reviews the Brooklyn Youth Chorus in The Times. It’s nice to see choral music–especially of the urban variety–get some attention. Just wondering, though, when the New York area press is going to jump on the P.S. 22 Chorus story. Since Tori Amos stopped by and [...]
Lukas Foss On The Praire
Lots of buzz out there right now about Lukas Foss’ cantata “The Praire,” making its way–via an organizational clusterfuck that only a summer music festival could conjure–to Lincoln Center, as reported by Kyle McAuley of The Sun. Poor guy’s still calling himself l’enfant terrible. Let’s not burst his 85-year-old bubble.
Sick Memories
David Denby serves up two of the summer’s big shots in The New Yorker. As much as I’ve already expressed that Michael Moore is pretty hot, if Davie D is accurate in his writing, then Sicko might be more trouble than it’s worth. The cast of The Hours also returns in Evening. It sounds like [...]
Shout Out
CC is “shouting” “out” to Danciti for their erudite and welcomed musing here: “So the Voice review [of Pascal Rioult's new piece] didn’t come out until this show closed. Too bad countercritic wasn’t invited.” OMG! We’re totally best friends now. Seriously. When can we stay over?
Check It
As you can tell, Counter Critic toooootally took the weekend off (including most of Friday). So we’re late in getting around to some of this, but give us a break! Two very important parades happened this weekend (only one of which we went to–we’ll let you guess). But imagine to our surprise when we came [...]
Critics SMACKDOWN Award of the Day (CSAD): Sulcas All The Way
It’s a dance day, and Roslyn Sulcas beats the shit out of Donna Scro Gentile Freespace Dance’s “ConTainMeiNiT” at DTW!!! Here’s a list of my favorite phrases: “mawkish cuteness and vaguenes”, “unremittingly awful music”, “New Age-y twanging and vague jazziness”, “fatuous emotionalism”. Here’s our favorite paragraph: “But all of this was positively anodyne when compared [...]
Time(s) To Dance
More tears from Macaulay; another dying swan… Matthew Gurewitch tells us more than we’d ever want to know about anti-gravity boots The Yale School of Music resuscitates Martha Graham in Claudia La Rocco’s review of MGDC
Get A Room!
Buoyed, no doubt, by the waves of Pride spurting down 5th Avenue last night, Alastair Macaulay, by the light of the mid-summer half-moon, alone in his hovel, writes this little strand in his review of Baryshnikov‘s Hell’s Kitchen Dance Company’s recent performance: “But it is still marvelous to watch [Baryshnikov]. (Trivial footnote: At no point [...]
Once You Go Black…
Here’s The Times’ take on A Mighty Heart. Manohla Blahnik Dargis doesn’t do a much better job of getting the fuck over Angie’s celebristatus than Anthony Lane. She even poses the question, why should we suspend our disbelief that we’re watching one of Hollywood’s super stars? But come on. The real question we should be [...]
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