Friday night we stopped by DNA for Laura Peterson’s “Electrolux,” reviewed in The Times by Gia Kourlas. Our very own RT will actually be reviewing this for The Brooklyn Rail, so all we can say now is, it was def worth checking out.
Saturday afternoon we hit the replay of the Met’s simulcast of Peter Grimes [...]
March 31, 2008
Categories: BAM, Blogs, Classical Music, Critics, Dance, Downtown, NY Times, New Music, Pop Culture, The Met (Opera) . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
W…T…F…
News came out like, Wednesday? Was anybody going to tell me?!!!!?!?!?
(Danciti is also posting about it)
UPDATE:
Gawker’s Nick Denton was on this shit even before Zimmer. Although, it might intrigue us all to know that he thinks “dance is increasingly irrelevant, culturally.” Anyone car to comment? Incidentally, if you click the “Deborah Jowitt” tag that searches [...]
March 28, 2008
Categories: Critics, Dance, Village Voice . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 3 Comments
C.C. fanatic and all around ferosh-tranny-mess-at-large, Michael Hart, made this little commercial spot for Counter Critic. I’m thinking we could definitely go for a Super Bowl spot…
March 28, 2008
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Here’s more evidence of the campaign to oust atonality from the concert music scene. Bernard Holland reviews a concert of new piano music at Greenwich House. He writes:
…something seemed to be whispering in my ear that the Dark Ages of postwar atonality were over and tentative reconnections to the past were under way.
To call post-war [...]
March 27, 2008
Categories: Classical Music, Editorial, NY Times, Rant . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 20 Comments
Definitely check out this article in The Times. With audio recording technology progressing at warp speed, it’s hard to imagine that just 150 years ago, it seemed unthinkable to be able to record sound and hear it played back.
The recording, that has been reconstituted by scientists, brilliantly reminds us what recorded sound inherently does, even [...]
March 27, 2008
Categories: NY Times, Old Music . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Dance Review: Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!” @ DTW
There are gaps in Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!,” which had a reprise mounting last week at Dance Theater Workshop, having first run at P.S. 122 last spring. The work, a kind of anthropological rumination on human culture, uses theatricality to isolate activities from their real-world, analogous contexts, and [...]
March 25, 2008
Categories: DTW, Dance, Downtown, Editorial, Rant, Review . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 6 Comments
Chez Bushwick Presents FORCE MAJEURE
New Dance From Spain and Holland:
Saturday, March 22nd
7:30pm
Admission Is FREE Upon Reservation (Limited Seating)
info@chezbushwick.net
© Aimar Perez Galí, 2008
On The Possibility Of Navigation
Choreography & Performance:
Aimar Perez Galí, Guillem Mont de Palol, Ricardo Santana
“On The Possibility Of Navigation” poses questions to generate knowledge deriving from information transfer in a variety of [...]
March 20, 2008
Categories: Brooklyn, Chez Bushwick, Dance, To Do . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Opera Review: “Tristan und Isolde” @ The Met
The Met’s latest mounting of Dieter Dorn’s 1999 production of “Tristan und Isolde,” Wagner’s insanely genius love-death opera retelling an ancient Celtic myth of star-crossed lovers via some of the most gorgeous—and I mean gorgeous—music ever written for the theater, has met an unusually gratuitous series of challenges [...]
March 19, 2008
Categories: Classical Music, Lincoln Center, Review, The Met (Opera), Uptown . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
The road to erotic transcendence is a slippery slope.
C.C.’s reporting at 1:31AM because girl just got back from The Met’s rockin’-n-rollin’ production of “Tristan und Isolde”–which has already been beleaguered by a series of casting issues–and yet another stroke of bad luck befell the love-sick opera.
Just into the third act, what was meant to be [...]
March 19, 2008
Categories: Classical Music, Lincoln Center, Opera, The Met (Opera), Uptown . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 1 Comment
L. Ro.’s piece on DTW’s new initiative to re-stage modern dance pieces that usually get the one-off…
Apollinaire Scherr’s state-of-The-Times address on her Arts Journal blog…
And some hot new music technology (via TheRestIsNoise) destined to help the latest crop of pop stars sound like they can actually sing…
March 18, 2008
Categories: Blogs, Classical Music, Critics, Dance . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments