Making a List, Checking it Twice
It’s the time of year again when everybody makes “best of” lists. So what’s yours? CDs? Concerts? Meals? Books? The concert of the year for me, of course, was the…
Who Says You Can’t Dance to Morton Feldman?
[youtube]ONP6HtxPN1Y[/youtube] OgreOgress artist Debora Petrina. Hat tip to Glenn Freeman.
Sir Norman’s Chapel
Pliable, our reliable friend across the pond, informs us that toute New York is aflame about a new 30-story Norman Foster edifice to be built on Madison Avenue. We must…
The Case of Martin Bresnick
Martin Bresnick turned 60 last month and he’s celebrating the event with two events at Zankel Hall this week. One piece will be on the Bang on the Can All-Stars…
Dreams That Still Come True
Ben Ratliff has a great review (and photo) in today’s New York Times of our amigo Darcy James Argue’s Thursday gig with his big band at the Bowery Poetry Club. …
Concert Promotion Porn
The Can Banger All-Stars are playing Zankel Hall on Tuesday, December 5, beginning at 7:30 pm, in a program called American UnPop What is American UnPop? This is how Evan Ziporyn,…
Monkey Business
It’s awfully quiet out there. What are you folks up to? I’m off to lunch at a nice bistro called Le Singe Vert. Why don’t you talk amonst yourselves for…
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
Fans of old-timey and bluegrass music are in for a rare treat on Monday night when the legendary and seldom seen York brothers–Fiddlin’ Frank and Mandola Joe–bring their String Messengers to…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Name all the people in this photo and win a turkey. (Thanks to Steve Layton for the Last Supper treatment.)
If a Frog Had Wings He Wouldn’t Bump His Ass so Much
The brilliant and talented piano and TabletPC genuis Hugh Sung has a terrific post about the Sequenza21 concert where he was a star performer. Hugh is also one of the nicest…