A C.C. tipster sent us this link to a conversation that’s happening over at the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s YouTube group between potential applicants for the orchestra’s “Believe You Can Win” contest and the Philharmonic.
It turns out the initial legal language of the contest rules had implied that simply by entering the competition–which asks video makers to [...]
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 [...]
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Music Review: Matmos @ The Stone
I remember the first time I watched electronic performance. It was at The Knitting Factory in 2000. A friend of mine had brought me. And I was amazed that a crowd of people had turned up to watch two guys…DJ. Well, they weren’t just playing one club song after the [...]
For those interested, I will be performing at a concert this Sunday at the Mannes College of Music. I will present one movement from my solo piano performance work, SHAPE/SHAME, as well as a collaboration with choreographer Elke Rindfleisch called Screen Test, both of which debuted last fall at Dixon Place.
Details are as follows:
New Music [...]
Music Review: Joanna Newsom @ BAM
For Michael
For one night at least, the cool kids took over BAM. I am, of course, using the phrase as I once believed Claudia La Rocco had used it (reviewing Jeremy Wade’s “…and pulled out their hair” at The Joyce Soho), that is, with an edge of condescencion. Well, with [...]
Music Review: Pierre Boulez conducts Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall
It was difficult to watch Pierre Boulez conduct his own works at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall last Thursday night without feeling distinctly that this kind of music—rigorously intellectual, formidable in its composition, challenging to the conventional ear—is an endangered species. Not for lack of audience, which, last [...]
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 [...]
Compare Daniel J. Wakin’s latest “blog post” on ArtsBeat, with Britney Spears’ account of the final birthday performance of Elliott Carter’s opera, What Next, which Brit wrote exclusively for Counter Critic.
If you ask me, Britney not only has a better sense of humor, but she was oddly more articulate.
For what it’s worth, Lou [...]
Music Review: Elliott Carter at The Miller Theater
by Britney
Hey y’all…So, I like…went to this music thing up ‘t that Columbia school…and like…it was actually real cool…even though at first ah was like…huh?…but then later it was like…okay…
So there’s this old guy Elliott…and he’s like, real old, and it was like his birthday an’ at the [...]
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