Turns out the Met’s recent announcement to change their Wagner Ring subscription policies has ruffled the feathers of Ringtards to the point where they’ve petitioned the Gray Lady to hear their case.
Particularly choice is the third letter, where a long-time Met customer, in almost the same breath, admits to spending $2,000 a year on opera [...]
…Or because we haven’t blogged in like, a million years.
Just checking in to let y’all know that C.C. has been putting major hours in on various other projects. I know LOTS is going on, and we are keeping up with it, just haven’t had the time to mouth off about any of it.
The good news [...]
C.C. did some more research into this “Top 50″ list, and it turns out that it wasn’t arrived at by counting number of hits (ours are quite respectable, actually; what’s average, six inches? six and a half?), but by number of links back to the blog, which you can get by Googling “link:[blog URL]“. We [...]
While trying to wrap his mind around the complexities of our current financial market near-collapse, Soho The Dog draws an interesting comparison to Milton Babbit’s prediction of the future landscape of music as outlined in his notorious essay, “Who Cares if You Listen,” and, while doing so, backs up C.C.’s defense of atonality!
Damn, girl! It [...]
Sounds & Fury (via Irontongue) has come up with a list of the top 50 classical music blogs out there on the internet. The us-u-al sus-pects make the top half, while a butt-load of blogs we didn’t even know about fill in the bottom. C.C. is, sadly, nowhere to be found, but what we lack [...]
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 [...]
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…
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…
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 hold [...]
We’re sending a big wet sloppy shout out to James Wolcott for linking our review of Trisha Brown to his blog on Vanity Fair. Woo hoo!
C.C. is tres flattered, and happy to know that sharp teeth are still appreciated in this town.
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