Four Year Hibernation
August 28, 2009
Doves’s four-year hibernation was mostly worth it.
Archive for the ‘Music & Performing Arts’ Category
Star Trek
in the Park
August 7, 2009
So I have Star Trek on the brain, and yet I do very much want to share thoughts on this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park. And, if you’ll bear with me, I think we will find more connections between the works of Gene Roddenberry and those of Shakespeare than just the actor Patrick Stewart.
A Human Revolution
July 3, 2009
The Human Revolution promotes hope, love, and responsibility to your neighbors and your planet, all to a danceable groove – and they practice what they preach.
Sigur Rós Redeems
the Music Video
July 3, 2009
In “Glósóli,” Icelandic band Sigur Rós creatively fuses music and cinema, renewing the lost art of the well-made music video.
St. Matthew Passion
Unveiled
May 29, 2009
A review of Jonathan Miller’s production of St. Matthew’s Passion at Brooklyn Academy of Music in spring 2009.
The Rockin’ Key to Familial Harmony
May 22, 2009
You could experience bedtime meltdown – or you could dance.
Cains & Abels Sing Their Heads Off
May 15, 2009
David SampsonPhoto: David Sampson Two hundred people fill a sparsely furnished sanctuary, singing at the top of their lungs. They are untrained singers with plenty of vocal eccentricities. No instruments give the right key or take the edge off the voices’ peculiarities. Stumbling upon a scenario like this would make many people flee for the [...]
The Art of Coexistence
God of Carnage and reasons to be pretty
May 8, 2009
We forget, sometimes, the thin veneer that sometimes separates our private lives from our public ones.