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vixen traps: set them if it ain’t selling
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) when i first spotted this LP in the goodwill “next stop is the dumpster” section, i did one of those ‘designer double-takes’. i saw the color and the wacky bad type. that’s usually where my … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged album cover art, alex steinweiss, art chantry, benjamin darling, igor stravinsky, martin denny record covers, mike savage naked vinyl, naked vinyl, tim o'brien naked vinyl, titty-chintzy advertising, vixens of vinyl, Woody Allen
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celebrity contagion :thirty two short momentos by glenn gould
The fetish object. The continuous restlessness of meaning. Unresolved tension through which the commodity is continually fetishized, de-fetishized and reproduced to look like the old; warts, scratches, scuffs and all. A reanimation that represents a highlighting of utopian longings dating … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged adam biran, Andy Warhol, arthur rubinstein, bob trenholm, Byron, clara haskill, daniel szmukler, dinu lipatti, Euro Banking Association, george e. newman, glenn gould, harry mannis, igor stravinsky, kate shapiro, kevin bazzana, Leonard Bernstein, paul bloom, paul waldie, serkin, Steven Pinker, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, valerie curtis, Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Benjamin, William Wordsworth
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bloch prints
Ernest Bloch, a major composer of the twentieth-century , was called a romantic in an unromantic age. His music is known for its rich harmonic effects and emotional intensity. Born in Geneva in 1880, he emigrated in 1916 to the … Continue reading
a rite of spring: the modern mindset of primitive hysteria
Pagan rites. It demanded music that would be melodic but simple, spontaneous and immodest. More tribal rite that bourgeois concert. Stravinsky was completing his Firebird ballet in 1910 when he allegedly experienced a vision; a girl chosen to dance herself … Continue reading
A springtime massacre: hailing the god of chaos
Can pagans on a stage make pagans of the viewers? What happens when a percussive and intense style is matched with irregular rhythms and instruments pushed to the brink of their capabilities? Igor Stravinky’s revival of an ancient blood rite … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alice B. Toklas, Beethoven, edward green, Eli Siegel, Gertrude Stein, igor stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Proust, Nijinsky, robert christgau, Sergei Diaghliev, Stravinsky, valentine gross hugo
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