Okay, it’s not too late to sneak in a little douche before the New Year. You know C.C.’s pet peeve is lazy critics, and arts writers who think they’re too above general standards of journalism to be bothered with reporting seriously on the arts. So, when we read Anne Midgette’s year-end wrap-up–all six slender paragraphs–supposedly [...]
Five golden rings…Four calling birds, three shots of the same choir…
Umm…did they think we wouldn’t notice? Don’t think C.C. doesn’t vaca with one eye open. This is from T-Bone Tommasini’s second piece on the St. Thomas Man-Boy Choir. He must like, really go there. (Photo by Julien Jourdes.) And do you remember this?… And this?… Click here for the original post.
THE 2007 COUNTER CRITIC AWARDS OF THE YEAR AWARDS
We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
He DOES care!
Do you guys remember when we cried when Alex Ross wrote that piece in The New Yorker with all those links to music blogs, and we were like, Alex, come on! We’re in your “All-Over Blogs” section and that means we won’t get the benefit of the extra traffic that one of your awesome NYer [...]
DUmb Critic Hack Award: Feingold, generally
Michael Feingold is starting to wear. Can anyone get all the way through one of his rambling missives? I mean, all the way through. No skimming. It’s just, for The Voice, his voice is sounding laconic and curmudgeonly. Not at all like the streetwise rag that isn’t afraid to drop an f-bomb now and then. [...]
Follow The Band Leader
We’re not blaming anyone, per se, but you all know three times equals a pattern, so when we just read Susan Yung’s lovely interview with Trisha Brown in The Brooklyn Rail (okay, so it’s our paper of the day–sue us!), we were intrigued to find out that her piece Foray Foret–from 1980–uses a marching band. [...]
Musicophilia
Some dears friends gave C.C. this book, and as soon as we’re finished taking apart Da Noise (Chapters 3 and 4 coming soon), we’ll be tearing into it. In the mean time, here’s a very elegant review by John MacDonald in The Brooklyn Rail. MacDonald faults author, Oliver Sacks, for covering too much territory and [...]
Sleeping Beauty
The news that the State Theater was getting some cosmetic surgery at the behest of incoming director, Gerard Mortier, was followed up swiftly by a burst of internet gossip that suggested the New York City Opera would possibly go dark for the 2008-2009 season to make way for renovations (and possibly to give Mortier a [...]
Check It, Before You Wreck Your Experience Of “Sweeney Todd” The Movie
If you love the musical theater works of Stephen Sondheim and you’re shivering in your queer-ass boots for fear of what awful fate will befall the juggernaut “Sweeney Todd” in the hands of creepy filmmaker and Depp-o-file, Tim Burton, READ THIS NOW. It’s Jesse Green’s blow-by-blow conversation with Sondheim about the kind of extreme cuts [...]
A Wolf In Isaac Mizrahi’s Clothing
According to Joan Acocello at The New Yorker, fashion phoenix Isaac Mizrahi will be narrating Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf at the Guggenheim’s “Work & Process” series this week. I’m sure he’ll do a fabulous job. Now, if they could only get this guy to make a cameo as “The Bird,” they might just have [...]
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