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 [...]
Ok, y’all. Now this is a rare occasion. I’m posting a “TO DO” for a major venue. But you must, I mean, MUST go see Candide at NYC Opera. It opens tonight and runs for about a week and a half.
Now, I haven’t seen this production, so, I can’t speak for that (it is, [...]
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 [...]
A very special treat today. The grandfather of one of C.C.’s admirers, Michael Hart, took this photograph of Marylin Monroe when she performed for U.S. troops in 1954. Performance has long been used as both a salve for homesick American troops abroad, as well as, like this week in what is now North Korea, diplomatic [...]
So, it’s taken us a week to get over being over the hype surrounding Joanna Newsom’s concert at BAM. But we’re over it. And now…we’re into it. No, for realz.
What y’all might not understand is that C.C. has a genetic “anti-hype” condition, that is, we are biologically incapable of liking anything that has been over-hyped. [...]
First of all, listen to this. (Thanks MissionFreak.)
Second, I’ve been thinking about why I can’t fully get into Joanna Newsom’s lyrics. So it came to my mind, rather subconsciously, to compare Newsom’s lyrics to another artist I feel maintains a similar level of visionary stream of consciousness, but whose lyrics I find more successful: Tori [...]
So, my review of the Joanna Newsom concert at BAM has generated a lot of traffic, and two interesting comments by a couple of readers. So let me respond to them here while also offering further thoughts on Ms. Newsom’s work.
To Kat, let me say first that there is no such thing as an objective [...]
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 [...]
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