This performance was recorded in Taos, New Mexico, in September 2014. The piece had its world premiere in Germany at Theater K-9, in Konstanz, in 1996. Abbie Conant, Soprano & Trombone / William Osborne, Music Text and Video From William Osborne’s brief description: Imagine a singer living among the dumpsters behind the Met. Tomorrow is […]
More News from Paris: Huge Bookfair Opens Today
Offprint Paris at the Beaux-arts de Paris showcases publishers of art, photography, design, and experimental music labels. The 2014 edition features more than 130 publishers from nearly two dozen countries, an exhibition (“Disarming Design from Palestine”), and a variety of public discussions and signings. Special guests include Paul Soulellis (Library of the Printed Web), Mathieu […]
Night Out: In a Zone of His Own
Sacha Perry at the Piano + Sept. 27, 2014 + Previously: A Virtuoso and His Guitar + And before that it was Sacha Perry doing his whiz-bang thang. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Night Out: A Virtuoso and His Guitar
Pasquale Grasso at Mezzrow, NYC. + Sept. 21, 2014 + Next Night Out: Sacha Perry in a Zone of His Own EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Hard Bop: Sacha Perry in the Dwayne Clemons Quintet
“Pianist Sacha Perry is widely known among musicians in New York as one of the brightest pianists on the scene. He studied with Barry Harris and quickly excelled in ability at the most difficult and subtle harmonies. He has been playing at Smalls for eight years, appearing with Across 7th Street, the Chris Byars Octet, […]
Words to Live By
Bruno Monsaingeon on Sviatoslav Richter The performing musicians with whom I have a real affinity, those who seem to me the truly important ones, are those who reach beyond the instrument they happen to play, who travel within themselves and do not just rely on the parameters of the instrument in order to express music. […]
Every Lapdog Should Have His Day . . . in Court
It’s time for a citizen’s arrest … Words by Heathcote Williams. Music by Max Reinsch. Performance by Alan Cox. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
‘Clapping Music,’ Talking Music, and a ‘Mallet Quartet’
Steve Reich has been called “our greatest living composer” by a New York Times critic. Was that hyperbole or just ink-stained enthusiasm? Listening to a performance of Reich’s “Mallet Quartet” a few nights ago at the CUNY Graduate Center (followed by his conversation with New York magazine’s music critic Justin Davidson), I understood why Reich […]
Music for Organ, With Encore for Bosendorfer Pianos
A friend of mine, Ben Schot, sent a photo he recently took of the Brooklyn-born minimalist composer and performance artist Charlemagne Palestine (born Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine, or Charles Martin) and his daughter Puck, a student at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. “He used to live in Rotterdam for a couple of years […]
What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About Jazz
Spike Wilner writes the electronic newsletter for Smalls Jazz Club, where he’s the congenial manager and one of the owners. The newsletter is always informative. Never sinks to mere PR. Which makes it one of the best around. (Wilner doesn’t just write the newsletter. He’s a first-class jazz pianist. Click the photo or this link […]
‘Aletheia,’ a Work-in-Progress
“Aletheia” is chamber music theater work about a musician in a dressing room preparing to perform for a gala benefit for an opera house that is taking place in the courtyard below her window. Though excited at first, she can’t bring herself to go down and perform. As her sense of isolation increases, she becomes, […]
Prick Up Your Ears for Hanne Lippard
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Sight Unseen, a Plug for Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Visitors’
2002: “Naqoyqatsi,” meaning “life as war,” was the third in Reggio’s qatsi trilogy. 1988: “Powaqqatsi,” meaning “life in transformation,” was the second. 1982: “Koyaanisqatsi,” meaning “life out of balance,” was the first. Reggio’s latest, “Visitors,” with another score by Philip Glass, will be released in 2014. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Michael Lowenstern Is a One-Man Band
What’d I Say (world premiere) from Tribeca New Music on Vimeo. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Jacques Brel, Philosophe
“l’enfance c’est une notion géographique.” Childhood is a geographical notion. We are born in a place called childhood. It is geographical. Childhood is a sky close to the ground. It is grey, it is damp. There are adults I don’t understand. It could’ve happened in Limousin, in Brittany or Paris. It took place in Belgium. […]
Typography Meets Country Music
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Hat’s off to the designer whoever that is. The kinetic typography put me in mind of the clever card sequence in D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary about Bob Dylan, “Don’t Look Back.” The design is more ingenious now, and of course the technology is far more sophisticated. But you get the idea. As to the stylish […]
For Nonconforming Artists, the Envelope Please
Update: Click for the 2015 Acker Awards. And read this captivating feature story by Nicole Disser: ‘Helen Keller Was an Asshole,’ and Other Things You’ll Learn at the Acker Awards Are awards the staff of life? Of course not. But they certainly seem like food for the hungry. The list of awards is nearly endless. […]