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 [...]
A loyal reader sent in this email about an event that took place at the opening of the Center for Performance Research…
OMG, C.C.!
Do you believe what happened Saturday night? I’m still recovering.
I’m hoping you’ll post my account of events, even though I‘m sure you’ll do your own.
Anyway…
So WTF did you think of Ann Liv Young’s [...]
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 [...]
So I was catching my daily dose of A. Ro.’s notoriously demure blog, Le Rest c’est Noise, when much to my dismay, I came upon this earth shattering phraseology that has C.C.’s heart breaking and her fingers shaking:
“…In the past I’ve posted pictures of our cats …”
…Wha?…Our cats?…Our cats?…Wait, wait. You mean, like…”our cats” in [...]
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (Oh boy… 
The second round of the rock-em-sock-em performance art biennial known as Performa, ended Monday night in a self-immolating “Grand Finale” at the Hudson Theater in Times Square. The festival, which has made us all laugh, cry, pull out our hair, stress out way too much about our fashion sensibility, and [...]
Dance Review: Jerome Bel’s Pinchet Klunchun and myself at DTW
(Photo by Chris Woltmann)
Do yourself two favors: 1. Don’t read this review. 2. Go and see Jerome Bel’s Pichet Klunchun and myself at Dance Theater Workshop, presented in partnership with Performa 07. Then read this review.
Of course, I usually try not to discourage readership [...]
We really don’t care about Harry Potter here (unless it’s naked pictures of Daniel Radcliffe), but The Times has decided to drag us into this crappy Dumbledor being gay controversy by running Edward Rothstein’s retarded editorial. And we’re giving him a mega douche, even though he isn’t reviewing anything, as much as he’s just [...]
Well, I never thought it could happen; or rather, I never thought it would happen; that one of the world’s leading conductors could systematically dismantle one of the greatest works in the literature of western music, turning what is generally understood as an emphatic ode to freedom and dance into a self-centered, hyperactive wank-fest. That [...]
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