A quick note from the blogging event at the Symphony: You should be here. I’m very sorry you’re not. We’ve enjoyed amazing performances of three wonderful works, plus the bonus of meeting the composer Christopher Theofanidis. For the second work, Beethoven’s Concert No. 1 in C major, the soloist was Yefim Bronfman, who I am …
Tag Archives: Live and in concert
What to do this weekend
Three activities this weekend that will make it worth your while to dig yourself out from the snow: 1. The Muckleman is playing at City Theatre through February 18. At the opening night party I asked some people at the bar to help me summarize the play in ten words. We came up with this: …
Here comes my man
This has been a whiplash month for Pixies fans. This week we heard from NME that in January the Pixies will be going into a studio to work on a new album. Frank Black said so. “We’re rehearsing in January, if we can persuade Kim (Deal, bassist) to come out of her house,” he told …
A symphony is no joke
When you think "symphony," what do you think of? Speaking for myself: I think "Leopold!" By which I mean this: Like anyone who was a child in the 70s, I learned about much of life — including the practice habits of professional musicians, the existence of the Hollywood Bowl, and much more about classical music …
And the colored girls go, doo doo-doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo
Plucked her eyebrows on the way / Shaved her leg and then he was a she.