According to Joan Acocello at The New Yorker, fashion phoenix Isaac Mizrahi will be narrating Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf at the Guggenheim’s “Work & Process” series this week. I’m sure he’ll do a fabulous job. Now, if they could only get this guy to make a cameo as “The Bird,” they might just [...]
Book Review: Alex Ross’ “The Rest Is Noise”; Introduction and Chapter 1
The narrative of twentieth century classical music has long worked itself out. It begins with the collapse of the tonal system of writing (mythically credited to the opening to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, the unresolved cadence heard round the world) and the divergent, and [...]
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 [...]
We just can’t quit you, Alex Ross!!!
For those who haven’t read it yet, head on over to The New Yorker and check out A. Ro.’s piece about online music writers: aka, blogheads.
A section of the article is devoted to the disparate, coagulating forces of the blogosphere. The online article is riddled with little links to–or [...]
It might seem natural that the big boys share a mutual admiration for each other. But we still thought it’d be interesting to point out the little tit-for-tat going down between Anthony Tommasini and Alex Ross.
First, T-Bone plugs Ross’ new book in his Times Dodecophony-for-Dummies editorial (which we already blogged about here).
Then, what do you [...]
The rest is Ross.
Here he is, speaking about his book, The Rest Is Noise, and his titular twin blog. I loooooove to hear critics’ speaking voices. Totally adds the human dimension to what can so often be the cerebral fuck-fest that is critical theory.
What do you think? Sounds kinda cute, right?
Take the time to check out Joan Acocella’s review of Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev biography, “Nureyev, The Life,” especially if you don’t feel like you’ll ever get around to reading all 700 pages of the book. You’ll get a lot of info, and even some dirty gossip, although Acocella is quick to act like these [...]
We’re passing out an good old DUCHY to Hilton Als over at The New Yorker. His normally sharp and funny tongue seems to grind down to a blunt nub in his review of The Public Theater’s production of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in The Park. While his hardon for Martha Plimpton is hilarious (and not unwarranted), [...]
Channel 13’s got Nuryev on the neurons.
So do the papers…
NY Times
New Yorker
NY Sun
Newsday
Yummy!
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group, Mozart Dances (Real and televised versions!)
There is an interesting passage from Apollinaire Scherr’s Newsday preview of Mark Morris Dance Company’s Live From Lincoln Center presentation of Mozart Dances last Thursday:
“Morris was concerned that the transitions to the musicians not make the dancers seem like “figments of the musicians’ imagination,” he [...]
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