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 [...]
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 [...]
Our future lover, A. Ro., gets called up to the Top 10 books of ‘07 list in The New York Times. (Way to go, hon!)
Despite what might appear to be a tendentious effort on our part to discredit the poor guy, we’re actually totally stoked that so many people are making such a fuss about [...]
The most provocative part of Alex Ross’ first book, The Rest Is Noise, a large tome about the classical music of the twentieth century that is part document, part muse, is the aim he takes at Arnold Schoenberg and the authority of the atonal school of writing. This book would not have been written fifty [...]
If you didn’t catch the first night, which we reported about here, head out to BAM tonight to catch the second installment of the new (and young) reading/screening series, “Between the Lines.”
The inside word is that tonight’s lineup is more intense, more grotesque, and just as cool as last time.
TONIGHT AT 8PM
BAR OPENS AT 7:30PM [...]
Book Review: Alex Ross’ “The Rest Is Noise”; Introduction and Chapter 1
The narrative of twentieth century classical music has long worked itself out. It begins with the collapse of the tonal system of writing (mythically credited to the opening to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, the unresolved cadence heard round the world) and the divergent, and [...]
Guess who got his grubby little hands on a copy of A. Ro.’s The Rest is Noise? That’s right, kids. C.C. is gonna be bringing you a chapter-by-chapter, blow-by-blow (pardon the expression), semi-tone-by-semi-tone review of Alex Ross’ first book.
So far, the cover feels really nice. And we’re totally into the Bjork blurb on [...]
“Contra Critique” is a series devoted to reporting non-critically on art and performance presentations that are not meant to be reviewed, such as works in process , readings or private viewings.
“Between the Lines” is a new reading/screening series at BAM. As part of the 25th Anniversary of the Next Wave Festival, BAM staffers Peter Conroy [...]
Thanks to Bryan Appleyard for pointing us to John Carey’s review of “Rudolph Nureyev: The Life.”
Not only is Carey’s review an outsider’s take on dance (and controversial: he calls ballet “mindless”), his tone is clearly hetero-masculine in the vein of Norman Mailer (but less annoying).
What is interesting though, is that now looking back at Acocella’s [...]
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