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 [...]
Ok girls and boys, we normally don’t do this sort of thing, but here’s a cause that C.C. is definitely getting behind. Click, watch and learn. Doesn’t matter who you are, information is information, and you never know when you or someone you know will decide to throw caution to the wind and have some [...]
Here’s more evidence of the campaign to oust atonality from the concert music scene. Bernard Holland reviews a concert of new piano music at Greenwich House. He writes:
…something seemed to be whispering in my ear that the Dark Ages of postwar atonality were over and tentative reconnections to the past were under way.
To call post-war [...]
Dance Review: Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!” @ DTW
There are gaps in Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!,” which had a reprise mounting last week at Dance Theater Workshop, having first run at P.S. 122 last spring. The work, a kind of anthropological rumination on human culture, uses theatricality to isolate activities from their real-world, analogous contexts, and [...]
So, once they let all 400 Americans into their country, the largest contingent of U.S. citizens to grace their land since the end of the U.S. invasion some fifty years ago, what did the North Koreans get to hear?
First, the orchestra played both the North Korean national anthem and ours. I love to hear the [...]
If you opted out of the 4am live internet stream of The New York Philharmonic’s performance in Pyonyang, and waited until 8PM last night for Channel 13’s broadcast of the performance, then you paid the price of having to sit through ABC’s virtual propaganda machine. Now, before you get all pissed off at me, I’m [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to Steve Smith for pointing us to Leon Fleisher’s letter in The Washington Post. Fleisher received a Kennedy Center Award in 2007, the acceptance of which seemed to include mandatory attendance at a White House reception with George W. Bush. Basically, Fleisher is like, I oppose Bush’s policies, but I decided to accept the [...]
The comment sent in by “Rabble” in response to our review of Joanna Newsom:
It’s always funny to me when some 30-something year old who once considered himself cool, realizes he’s behind the game. Rather seek to understand a musician or an “indie” music scene from which he has become out of touch, he chooses a [...]
Ways and Means: A five-part meditation on writing about the arts
What You See Is Not The Same As How You See It
If you’ve ever read one of Deborah Jowitt’s reviews in The Village Voice, then you’ll have a pretty good idea about the style of arts criticism that I’m calling non-evaluative. You know, the kind [...]
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