A very special treat today. The grandfather of one of C.C.’s admirers, Michael Hart, took this photograph of Marylin Monroe when she performed for U.S. troops in 1954. Performance has long been used as both a salve for homesick American troops abroad, as well as, like this week in what is now North Korea, diplomatic [...]
TO DO: Nick Hallett
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Pyongyang Interrupted: Part II
So, once they let all 400 Americans into their country, the largest contingent of U.S. citizens to grace their land since the end of the U.S. invasion some fifty years ago, what did the North Koreans get to hear? First, the orchestra played both the North Korean national anthem and ours. I love to hear [...]
Pyongyang Interrupted: Part I
If you opted out of the 4am live internet stream of The New York Philharmonic’s performance in Pyonyang, and waited until 8PM last night for Channel 13’s broadcast of the performance, then you paid the price of having to sit through ABC’s virtual propaganda machine. Now, before you get all pissed off at me, I’m [...]
Notes On A Vanguard: Andrea Maurer, “State of Mine”
Here is a link the most recent essay I have published on Chez Bushwick’s blog, Notes On A Vanguard, hosted on Doug Fox’s Great Dance.
This Just In
As we reported before, Daniel J. Wakin has been covering The New York Philharmonic’s East Asian tour for The Times. He just cranked out this interesting article, which The Times online has posted. If you haven’t gone to check out his ArtsBeat coverage, do so now. It’s kind of unprecedented. There are sound clips from [...]
Ladies In The Lake, or, Matmos @ The Stone
Music Review: Matmos @ The Stone I remember the first time I watched electronic performance. It was at The Knitting Factory in 2000. A friend of mine had brought me. And I was amazed that a crowd of people had turned up to watch two guys…DJ. Well, they weren’t just playing one club song after [...]
The End of Attitude
We heart Jerome Bel. In thinking about all this “postdramatic” theater stuff, Bel fits nicely into this description. We’d like to offer a another word for dance, in response to the title of Roslyn Sulcas’ super sweet profile of Bel in The Times: Theater. As y’all may recall, we reviewed Bel’s “Pitchet Klunchun and Myself” [...]
In Memorium (And, about time)
In honor of the passing of Alain Robbes-Grillet, I am going to publish here the second chapter of a novel I was writing years ago when I was taken by a particular obsession with Robbes-Grillet’s writing. It is passionate, and dense, and impersonal, and I was younger than now, and, just skimming through it, it’s [...]
Miss Me Much
A lovely friend sent us in this desperate comment, lamenting the recent lull in content on C.C. Well, all we can say is, we go through these periods every now and then. The only thing we can do is bear down, and breathe through it. In the mean time, if you don’t think you can [...]
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