The progenitor of this novel, its faux leather back cover attests in urine-yellow type (a hue and liquid one finds in the narrative as well), “is an independent author of idiosyncratic fiction. His work has been published under multiple pseudonyms. Including this one.” Adrian Jones Pearson. He is on Facebook, of course.
Tag: 09.09.15
London’s Oldest Music Hall Reopens After £4M Restoration
The long-forgotten Wilton’s Music Hall first returned to our attention – still in a very derelict state – in 1997 with the celebrated Deborah Warner-Fiona Shaw staging of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Other stagings in the venue followed over the years – as did a capital campaign. Now Wilton’s is ready for full-time use – still looking worn, but with up-to-date theatre infrastructure.
New Music Gets Its Own Mini-Carnegie Hall – In Brooklyn, Of Course
“There’s nothing else quite like it in New York. Establishment venues like Zankel Hall have welcomed composers, the 28-year-old organization Bang on a Can has colonized virtually every concert space in the city, and (Le) Poisson Rouge has found a winning combination of eclectic programming, casual atmosphere, and poor acoustics. But new music has never had its own miniature Carnegie Hall, a space explicitly designed for musical experimentation.”
Some People Are Afraid Of Where Technology Is Taking Us. Shouldn’t We Listen?
“Today’s Luddites are scared that technology will reveal that humans are no different from technology—that it will eliminate what it means to be human. And frankly, I don’t blame them. Humanity has had such a particular and privileged conception of itself for so long that altering it, as technology must inevitably do, will indeed change the very nature of who we are.”
How’s The Metropolitan Opera Doing? The Season’s First Week Gives Some Clues
These revivals, as much as the new “Otello,” may shed light on artistic and financial challenges the Met has been grappling with in recent years under its general manager, Peter Gelb. Whither the Met? Look to that opening week.
When White Poets Pretend To Be Asian
Hua Hsu on the Yi-Fen Chou/Best American Poetry affair (which he calls “Orientalist profiteering”): “It makes a mockery of whatever ‘life story of a Chinese American poet’ the name Chou might have stood in for. It ridicules the ambient self-doubt that trails most people from the margins who enter into spaces where they were never encouraged to belong. As though it were all just a game, meant to be gamed.”
Billie Holiday To Sing At The Apollo This Fall – As A Hologram
“The Apollo has partnered with Hologram USA to bring extended, permanent hologram technology to the theater. Ms. Holiday, who performed at the Apollo in the flesh nearly 30 times, will be the first, and is scheduled to debut around Thanksgiving.”
Don’t Make Fun Of Luddites – They Have A Point
“We shouldn’t automatically dismiss [the Luddite impulse] as one that scapegoats technology for society’s ills or pines for a simpler past free of irritating gadgets. Rather, today’s Luddites are scared that technology will reveal that humans are no different from technology – that it will eliminate what it means to be human. And frankly, I don’t blame them.”
Bard College Starts Up New World Symphony-Style Postgrad Orchestra
The ensemble, called The Orchestra Now, provides free tuition, health benefits, and a $24,000 annual stipend. This year TON will be performing at Bard, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and plans to give free concerts in New York City’s outer boroughs and East Village.
Trisha Brown Dance Company Partners With Bard College
“As part of the relationship, which begins this month, Bard will have rights to rehearse and perform selections from Ms. Brown’s repertory. … Artists from the troupe will embed in the faculty, teaching classes and shaping the school’s course offerings to reflect … not so much Ms. Brown’s technique as her way of thinking.”