You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but when it’s as gusty as it was on Wednesday, Oct. 7, some kind of warning, or maybe a protective shield, might have helped. But the weather didn’t stop the stars from coming out to the American Ballet Theatre’s fall gala at Avery Read More
Because City Center was supposed to be undergoing major revamping (it didn’t happen), ABT switched its fall season to an unlikely venue: Avery Fisher Hall. It has no front curtain, no wings, no rake and no way to hang scenery, and the balcony is a zillion miles from the stage.
The season was also Read More
In choosing Mahler’s Eighth Symphony for his final suite of concerts with the New York Philharmonic (June 24 through June 27), Lorin Maazel doubtless wanted to go out big—and there’s nothing bigger than the Eighth, which employed some one thousand musicians at its world premiere in 1910. But in doing so, he also chose, unwittingly, Read More
If you haven’t yet made plans for New Year’s Eve (and you don’t already have My Morning Jacket tickets for their Madison Square Garden show), you might want to consider Ms. Patti Smith for your evening’s festivities. While Smith doesn’t exactly have a new studio album to promote, she’s certainly been in the headlines Read More
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"The live show is the new album cover," says David Tobias, singer/guitarist for Brooklyn’s electro-funksters Apes & Androids. In a piece in July’s Spin on the new vogue for psychadelic stage-shows, we learn that the Androids hand out kazoos to their audience so they can play along to Gary Glitter’s "Rock & Roll Part Read More
If classical music is an endangered species, then the principal reason may not be the abandonment of musical education in public schools, the kudzu-like ubiquity of pop music or the indifference of the mass media, but something far more pernicious: the boorishness of concertgoers. We are coming to the end of an extraordinarily robust musical Read More
A thousand years ago, people thought the world was going to end with a new millennium. They dressed accordingly. A thousand years later, you will find such fears in New York–if they even exist–denied through the filter of fashion. Consider the week of May 31. Movie stars wore pastels to memorial services and formidable fashion Read More
