Among other fab things going on at Dixon Place’s HOT! Festival, Jack Ferver is presenting a new piece, MEAT, likely to have all the high-energy, wrist-cutting, shade-throwing, and fierce-ass-bitch-mongering that he is known for. (Remember, we reviewed Jack for The Rail a while back.) Tickets tonight and tomorrow are 1/2 off, so jump on that [...]
Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to die musicians
In the NY Times music section: 4 obits and 1 in memorium in the past three days. Wa-wah… LeRoi Moore, 46, Saxophone Player, Dies Ronnie Drew, Folk Singer and Guitarist Who Founded the Dubliners, Dies at 73 Johnny Moore, 70, Ska Trumpeter, Is Dead Hollywood Joins Memphis for a Farewell to Isaac Hayes Dorival Caymmi, [...]
Talk To Me, Goose
Hey peeps- My real-life alter ego is working on an article about the Met’s HD simulcast program. If you or anyone you know has been to one of these, and thinks it would be fun to be interviewed by a real live arts journalist (well, darn near close to it), please send me your (or [...]
To Do: Shameless Self-Promotion
Ten years after coming out, composer/performer/writer Ryan Tracy has one more thing to come clean about: His songwriting. Since 1998, Ryan has written over a dozen songs that chronicle his pursuit of the big gay life. But for inexplicable reasons, these songs have remained trapped in the closet: Until now! BIG RELEASE Original songs by [...]
ON CHINA PART 2: The Erotic Problem
All ranting aside, there is something we can glean from examining China’s relationship with itself and with the world. I’ve been reading a series of essays by Anne Carson on the history of Eros–the Greek concept/god of desire–a fascinating, puzzling and ultimately illuminating exposee on the ancient principle. In her book, “Eros: The bittersweet,” eroticism [...]
ON CHINA PART 1: Three strikes…China’s out. Oh, and take NBC with you.
I’m taking a cue from L. Ro., who has this great post about Olympic culture on her WNYC blog. Because, I too, in theory, am a fan of the Olympics. I think, as a mechanism for global interaction that celebrates the feats of the human body, while fostering sportsmanship and appreciation of cultural differences, the [...]
Jacob not biting his Pillow any time soon; at least, not outside
It was in the spring that I found out that Elke Rindfleisch’s 80% of Love–which premiered last summer in NYC at the Ohio Theater, and on which my opera ensemble, Collective Opera Company, had collaborated–had been slated for the outdoor stage at Jacob’s Pillow this summer in what the festival calls its Inside/Out series. Needless [...]
Just Sing…Sing A Song
C.C.’s got song on the brain, probably because of her own immersion in the stuff, with three performances coming up in the next 10 days all involving songs of hers (er…well, one of the performances was last night at the opening of the new Galapagos! I may blog about that whole experience later. But quickly, [...]
TO DO: THE WELCOME WAGON
TONIGHT, AUG 5 – Yep, that’s yours truly in this fab invite for the Earl Dax-produced opening performance party for the new Galapagos in DUMBO. If you’ve never attended an Earl Dax joint, now’s a good time to start. His Art Jam series at the old Galapagos was truly an inspiration. Plus it will be [...]
Wherefore Art Thou Boo?
Today, James Oestreich at The Times reports on a single, lonesome “boo” that was sent into the air after the performance of Webern’s “Five Canons After Latin Texts” during a Friday evening Mostly Mozart Festival concert. I suppose a boo, even a single boo, in our age of concert complacency, is something to report on, [...]
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