So, Alastair Macaulay makes the case for adding James Kudelka’s “The Ruins Proclaim the Building Was Beautiful” to C.C.’s Know When To Say When list; and then some. He writes:
“The Ruins Proclaim the Building Was Beautiful” (to music by César Franck soupily arranged for orchestra by Rodney Sharman) lasts no more than 30 minutes, but [...]
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C.C. BFF and NYT dance critic, Claudia La Rocco, just sent a giant spit-ball hurling toward the ballet universe. Basically, she’s like, WTF is with ballet and old crappy sets from the sixties? We totally agree.
Christopher Wheeldon tries to excuse the disconnect with this theory:
“It’s O.K. that [the visual elements are] [...]
We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
Put down the remote control, and check out Alessandra Stanley’s morning television check-up in The Times. This is Stanley’s second Caddy, the first going to her coverage of Victoria Beckham’s one-night-stand reality ride.
It was really hard to pick a favorite passage from this lampooning of morning television’s feminine consumer-driven lameness. So we’re gonna give you [...]
L. Ro. is a poet. And you’ll know it when you read her review of the girl/boy double bill of Beth Gill and Daniel Linehan at DTW, so we’re giving her the Mini-CADDY
Dunning is just…dry in her review of Gina Gibney, so she gets a Mini-Douche
Roslyn Sulcas gets a Mini-CADDY for using the word “denuded” [...]
Anne Midgette knows what’s up. She takes the occasion of reviewing The Met’s current production of Norma to articulate the divide between two major schools of thought regarding what kind of opera singers ideal. Although, like most dichotomies, there tend to be benefits to both sides, and a truly engaged presenting house [...]
Choreographers: Claudia La Rocco got your back.
The 60’s nostalgia that folks have been mainlining during this year’s Performa extravaganza, has been irking me to no small degree. You all know how we feel about this. While I’m down with taking the best things we learned from that era, and moving forward with it–recognizing the present [...]
So, this review took some time to sink in, or rather, it took us actually listening to Britney’s latest oeuvre to really get what Kelefa Sanneh was trying to say, you know, last week. In “Pieces of Me,” the hottest track out of the five that we downloaded–LEGALLY FROM ITUNES–(and have been obsessed with since), [...]
OMG. A. Ro. is for real. Check out his “endless” article on Philip Glass in this week’s New Yorker. (We know it’s been out for a few day’s now.)
He’s pretty fair in his assessment of Glass’ repetitatious (we just made up that word) music, which was awesome in The Hours, not so awesome in [...]
Kelefa Sanneh pulls down his first CADDY with this blithe little muse about the bittersweet, caramely goodness that is the music of The Shins, in his Times review of their concert at Terminal 5:
“New Slang” was the band’s breakthrough hit; it’s the one that was supposed to change Zach Braff’s life in the film “Garden [...]
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