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 [...]
Pyongyang Interrupted: Part I
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 [...]
Is Alex Ross trying to tell us something?
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 [...]
Liebestodt: Performa 07, “Grand Finale”
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, [...]
That’s Why I Want To Disappoint You
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 [...]
DUmb Critic Hack Award: Rothstein on Dumbledor
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 making [...]
Beethoven Compressed, Dismantled at Carnegie Hall
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 [...]
The Great Mystery is solved!!!!
As you may well remember, an anonymous reader tried to harsh my crit cuz I called Claudia La Rocco old, or crusty or something like that. The reader came to her defense, saying she was “rather young.” Though I mocked my reader’s relative assertion of Claudia’s youngness, I have to say, I did begin to [...]
Thank Fucking Christ
The New York Times has finally ousted their “Times Select” pay-per-read scheme. I tried to use that shit a couple times and kept running into loads of technical ineptitude and snarky response from the people who ran the racket. So read away. Now, if they could only lose the fucking Mirapex banner ad on every [...]
Get Over The 60s: Part Two
Review in Brief: Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe First of all, this should have been called Across New York City In The 60′s, which although a marvelous cosmopolitan center, does not constitute the entire universe. [I know the title comes from the song.] But judging by it, Julie Taymor thinks it does, or did, at [...]
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