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the fifties: east side stories
We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy
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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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dybbuk and dance
Nice bodies and gracious gestures.Under the Nazis, Goebbels, after slow dancing around the issue for years, finished by banning ballet; dance became a diversion and no longer an artistic category; a joy of life and pleasure of the senses with … Continue reading
X-TREME COMPOSITION & AGONY OF INDIFFERENCE
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ( Elie Wiesel … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Chopin, Eleanor Holmes, Elie Wiesel, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Goethe, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, Marc Chagall, Paul Groves, Robert Lepage, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Sir Andrew Davis, The Berlioz Enigma J.H. Eliot, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Virgil Aenid, Weber, Wilfred Mellers, www.andywarholgallery.com, www.brusselsjournal.com
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