July 2010
21 posts
Dover Beach, op. 29 by Samuel Barber →
Conservatory students of the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) performed a concert on March 15, 2010 celebrating the centenary of American composer Samuel Barber’s birth, at the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. I captured the concert with a modest one-camera setup. The performers of this work are: Thomas Shivone, bass-baritone Jeoung-Yin Kim, violin Rebecca...
Grinderman - When My Love Comes Down (Treacle Session) Source: vimeo.com The Treacle Sessions feature Grinderman playing live in a tiny east London studio. The performance was filmed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. Grinderman are Nick Cave, Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos. www.grinderman.com
Bliss. The board of directors at work. Brilliant camerawork/editing by Forsyth/Pollard....
Hamac Cazíim Documentary Stills →
Op-Ed Contributor - No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class - NYTimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
A “female Viagra” won’t cure what ails America’s bedrooms.
Another insightful op-ed piece by the brilliant Camille Paglia.
Chuck Close (and more) at the Corcoran →
Today (Sunday, July 18) is the last day of a wonderful convergence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Although you would most associate the museum with “static” art, for the past few months…
Laurie Anderson →
The blog has been rather catatonic for the past few weeks, essentially fulfilling that stereotype of the medium: new blogs get-it-on for just a few months, because everything’s fresh - but after…
Production Stills from "R. Luke DuBois: Running... →
WatchA little while ago, I set my thirteen-year-old nephew up with some modest facilities for composing electronic music, in a redux of my sullen childhood. He came back with a “debut album,” so: for the occasion of his fourteenth birthday (and also to terrorize his younger sister, like any good uncle), I couldn’t resist cutting this short little video to his music. I had just...
Finland the first country in the world to make broadband access a legal right — Engadget
Source: www.engadget.com
We knew this was coming, but starting today, every citizen of Finland has the legal right to a 1Mbps broadband connection, meaning that providers are
How Wagner Called Hollywood’s Tune - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com
Source: ideas.blogs.nytimes.com
Friday | Today’s idea: The composer Richard Wagner, pioneer of leitmotif and the grand synthesis of performance arts, is also the father of the modern film score, an article says. [http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/17/entertainment/la-et-wagner-movies-20100617“>Los...
DIRTY PROJECTORS + BJORK :: Store
Source: app.topspin.net
This studio recording has just gone on sale today, and all proceeds benefit a project of creating international marine protected areas. Bjork’s involvement hearkens to “Medulla,” her a capella experimentations a few years ago.
June 2010
24 posts
An Interview with Arlington Comedienne Jessica Brodkin | ARLnow.com
Source: www.arlnow.com
Arlington clearly breeds fame. Sandra Bullock, Katie Couric, Tipper Gore — all from Arlington. And then there are the more recent famous Arlingtonians: Remy (the Arlington Rapper), and Eric Patrick (comedian/new Real World cast member).
WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio - Metro Connection for Friday May 21, 2010
Source: shar.es
Interview with Erica Ginsberg, Executive Director of Docs in Progress
Laurie Anderson’s Heart, Politics and Processors - NYTimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
Laurie Anderson, the musician and multimedia artist, has a new album, “Homeland.”
Hamac Caziim | Explore the Arts - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Source: www.kennedy-center.org
Millennium Stage performance/webcast on June 28, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. EST
Hamac Cazíim at Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2010
Source: www.youtube.com
Rather like the Quebe Sisters three years ago, I chanced upon this band today and was so overwhelmed that I pointed my crappy phone recorder at them for this short clip, just to jot for later searching. I still can’t find recordings anywhere (and the Smithsonian doesn’t have any, either), but: they…
Forgetting his notorious awkwardness (or maybe... →
The Calm Before The Tree of Life
Source: www.popmatters.com
With The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick, the mysterious director no one knew about save for film buffs, will be on the tip of everybodys tongue come the awards season of 2011.
Best article yet on Malick’s forthcoming inevitable masterpiece.
Reduced Shakespeare Company: Completely Hollywood... →
From the East Coast, we say with some amount of pride that not a lot of greatness hails from the Left Coast in this realm of “fine” performing arts. (It is no accident in this sense, yet…
So the blog has been in Peru for the past week, missing the beat in Washington but trekking across Inca territory to a very different beat. Yet there is something coming up today (June 18) queued for a quick mention here. In mind of the way that some DC residents deliberately dare not cross the vast Potomac for Arlington arts, it can come as a surprise that such community organizations are quite...
WatchToday is the one-year anniversary of the DTV Transition. Here is a re-mastered video from that night, with some additional newcast run-up footage and audio clean-up.
Synetic Theater, known for performing underground (stylistically as well as logistically) at the very damp basement movie room called Rosslyn Spectrum, have taken up residence for a month at the Kennedy Center’s “Family Theater” which used to be the American Film Institute’s contribution to John F. Kennedy’s vision for a multi-disciplinary center for the...
Thunder Burger | Thrillist
Source: www.thrillist.com
Burger lair gets medieval on Georgetown’s ass
����Would like to crash this pretentious joint joining the fray of overpriced burger businesses, and rearrange the chairs into “NUTHERD.” Who’s with me? (Kidding, of course.)����
loved Inspired by Iceland Video on Boxee →
BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy ‘is good for you’
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but this news arrives the day after I received a clean bill of health after a general physical exam…
John Adams:Hell Mouth:”I didn’t realize I was sitting next to the composer!”
Source: earbox.com
Given a choice I always would prefer to be onstage conducting a performance of a piece of mine rather than sitting out in the audience. This doesn’t mean that I am not gratefully appreciative when other conductors program something of mine. Not at all.
Grand Bahama Island →
May 2010
29 posts
Memorial Day 2009 in Carbondale, Illinois
Source: vimeo.com
In Woodlawn Cemetery, the site of an original memorial service led by General John A. Logan which inspired him to set in motion the establishment of a Memorial Day commemoration each year. To this extent, Carbondale, Illinois has a valid claim to the origin of this holiday. This presentation include…
Taino Beach, Grand Bahama Island →
Starbucks Has Nothing on Northside Social: Clarendon coffee shop’s charms go way beyond the cup
Source: www.washingtoncitypa…