Here are the Classical & Dance videos from New York Magazine’s 100 best vintage New York Videos. They’re mostly from the 50’s and 60’s. Though brilliant, kind of makes me wanna bust out my good old mantra: Get over the sixties.
The hottest vid is clearly Callas performing on The Ed Sullivan Show. Not only [...]
Okay, okay. You got us, Tonya Plank! As some of you might have already guessed, C.C. is definitely built on the Gawker model of media vulturizing. Although, we like to think our standards lie somewhere nice and cozy in between high brow criticism and low brow gossip-mongering: the media taint, if you will.
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Justin Davidson, over at New York, gives a much needed kick in the balls to the New York Philharmonic. Despite hot ticket sales and a generally sound institutional infrastructure, the band can still sound like pure caca.
Especially considering the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s performance at Carnegie the other night, there is no excuse that the [...]
New York’s “Vulture” digs into opera’s veiny underbelly.
Imagine that, opera singers are real fucked up people too! Just goes to show you how limited our expectations of are of the art and the artists.
Still, roids aren’t necessarily going to open up new audiences to opera. Even if, for a fleeting minute, they attract the [...]
New York Mag parodies The New Yorker (or vice versa?) with its own double-bill review of “Xanadu” and “The/King/Operetta.” But Jeremy McCarter switches it up, slashing “Xanadu” with bits like this…
“It must have been budget constraints that kept Xanadu’s producers from adding the final, essential touch to its décor: a pair of twenty-foot-tall [...]
New York Mag registers its review of Sicko…and it’s a winner!
Seriously. I think this is the final tilt to the positive. Reading this review kind of made me think that trying to critique a documentary of this specific type through purely aesthetic ethics, might do a complete disservice to the culture that is [...]
Peter G. Davis writes this dirty review of The Tristan Project for NY Mag, recently performed at Lincoln Center. When complaining of the lack of sexiness in Bill Viola’s dour images, he writes…
“I’m not suggesting that he should’ve gone in the direction of soft porn. But surely something more erotic was needed than a rather [...]
If these posts are any indication of a serious trend, CounterCritic (the baby vulture that we are) won’t have any scraps to feed on in the future.
Dear God, please make me a bird, so I can fly far, far, far away from here.
RUN COUNTER CRITIC!!! RUUUUUUUN!!!!!!
Trouble in our own back yard as reported by The [...]
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