Times Likes To See Boys Singing Through Harp Strings
Christmas came early as the St. Thomas Man-Boy Choir strikes again this morning at The Times!
This is getting creepy. Click here for past coverage…
Our cheatin’ heart
Hey, y’all! (a la Brit)
So, I know some of you think I ain’t been writin’ recently. But t’aint true! I just been writin’ somewheres else.
Check these dance reviews over at The Brooklyn Rail:
First, Neal Medlyn and Jack Ferver queer it up at The New Museum…
Whether we’re post-gay, post-AIDS, post-Will & Grace, or blindly drifting in [...]
On A Musical Note
I thought I’d send y’all out into the weekend with a thought about the debate that’s been simmering on these two posts. Some of the comments concern this idea that atonality is unnatural, and therefore, illegitimate in some way. Bernard Holland’s recent comment that serialism is “made up” represent this notion that there is something [...]
Critics Award of the Day: A.M. on James Kudelka
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 [...]
Baby One More Time
It’s a classical music day!
So, e’rbody knows about Juan Diego Florez’s 18 high C’s at The Met last night. C.C.’s gonna check out the simulcast on Saturday. Interrupting a piece of theater so a performer can take a bow–or in this case, re-sing the entire aria–is like one of those divisive election-year issues that is [...]
Bernard Holland Is A Serial Killer
Ok, sue me for being sensational. It’s only a pun. But it gets to the point. Bernard Holland has set his will against serial music, and atonality in general. Oh, and rational discourse.
Y’all already know about B. Ho’s last piece, to which we responded with due ridicule.
And then, just the other day, he wrote this [...]
DUmb Critic Hack Award: THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL
Well, well, well. We’re back and we’re bad, and we’ve resuscitated the DUCHIES (pronounced, DOUCHE-ees) because Jenny D.’s recent review of a mixed bill at BRIC Studios in Brooklyn has us fired up. The interesting thing is that C.C. was personally involved and invested in one of the pieces she took down.
Now, before we all [...]
Strike A Pose
It’s going to be a dance day.
(Left: Ekaterine Kondaurova of The Kirov, photo by Andrea Mohin/NYT; Right: Teresa Reichlen of the NYCB, photo by Paul Kolnik/NYT)
I thought it would be fun to show these images side by side. On the left is Ekaterina Kondaurova performing “Rubies” from Balanchine’s “Jewels” with the Kirov Ballet, that has [...]
JFC
Think I’ve got the message figured: Another critic down…
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A Weekend With CounterCritic
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 [...]
