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Silent Plight?

8 December 2009 12:20 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

The annual deluge of Christmas music is in the air -- literally -- in department stores, markets, elevators, ring tones and voicemails. This is all well and good for some folks. But as you navigate the mall -- surrounded by songs you've heard a thousand times before -- have you started to feel that all you want for Christmas is to avoid Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas? When you get home, do you want to steamroll your neighbor's Mannheim Steamroller discs, or excommunicate the in-laws' Mormon Tabernacle Choir collection? And be honest -- as you try to fall asleep, do you think about how badly you want to forever silence Kenny G's Silent Night? For an alternative silent night, try John Cage's 1952 composition 4'33" which calls for any combination of musicians to sit quietly and play no notes »

- Michael Sigman

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Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Interview

19 November 2009 11:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Nicolas Cage: Bad To The Bone

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Alex Simon

It’s an inevitable event in every accomplished artist’s life: if you go back on the timeline of their existence and stop in adolescence, almost all of our greatest actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians and painters went through tumultuous, tortured teenage years, often scorned, almost universally ridiculed by their peers and elders alike for the cardinal sin of being “weird.” Most people run from their inner nerd as they grow into adulthood, masking it behind toned muscle, fine clothing and the right haircut, struggling to be that cool guy or gal whom we knew had all the answers and the clearest skin back when such things started to be de rigeur in our lives (and if you live in Southern California, continue to be).

Nicolas Cage is that rare movie star who not only never seemed to care if he was cool, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Scenes We Love: Poetry in Motion

17 May 2009 11:32 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I know, I know. I've written about documentaries a lot lately. But I promise -- this is the last one, at least for a little while. There's a film I watched during Hot Docs that I never mentioned, mainly because it was part of a retrospective and is a good twenty-seven years old -- Ron Mann's Poetry in Motion.

The film follows a large collection of North American poets performing their work in the early '80s, including: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, John Cage, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Waldman, Jim Carroll, The Four Horsemen, and Tom Waits. The performances range from poetry set to music and given a rhythm, to sound poetry, to classic recitation. On their own, the pieces are an intensely interesting look at how performance can change poetry, as well as what the creative world was like almost 30 years ago. But they're also brought »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Coraline Goes from Film to Stage

14 May 2009 3:51 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

One of the more successful graphic novel to film adaptations in recent memory was most definitely Coraline, and we received word that just last week it premiered on stage in (where else?) New York City.

Coraline is running from May 8th to June 20th, 2009, at the McC Theater at The Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street in New York. Here's a synopsis from the McC: A musical like no other, Coraline sprang from the minds of three of the most wildly popular cult figures of our time. Adapted from the terrifying children’s book by Neil Gaiman, this tale of menace and mayhem is set to music and lyrics by smart-rock iconoclast Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields (pictured) and boasts a book by celebrated downtown actor/playwright David Greenspan, who serves double-duty as the villainous Other Mother. Tony nominee Jayne Houdyshell stars in the title role, and bringing it all »

- The Woman In Black

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The Surprising Beauty of the YouTube Symphony

16 April 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Ever think you'd see YouTube videos in Carnegie Hall?

Last night, Google and YouTube presented the premiere of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, a collaborative online effort featuring 96 classical musicians from around the world and chosen from among thousands of applicants via YouTube submissions.

The three-hour concert, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, was a "potpourri... of movements and excerpts from 15 wildly diverse works," according to The New York Times. The musicians, whose video bios were projected behind them on the stage, hailed from 30 different countries, and presented a message of unity through music by way of a progressive, if unconventional crowd sourced approach to creating the orchestra.

The group performed after only two real days of virtual rehearsal--albeit long ones, each one lasting from 10am to 9 at night.

The Times review sniffed that orchestral enthusiasts might have found the presentation too light on substance, but the crowd responded »

- Chris Dannen

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Vibrant and Varied Works on Paper

9 January 2009 5:36 PM, PST | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »

Winter Salon: Works on Paper

Björn Ressle Gallery

Björn Ressle has had galleries in Stockholm, Bogota, and now New York, specializing in abstract, minimal, and conceptual art. When I asked him the theme of his current exhibition, he responded "nepotism" with a knowing smile. I like that, the straightforwardness, the honesty -- and when you look at the roster of names, which include Carl Andre, George Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, George Condo, Neil Jenny, Alex Katz, Sol Lewitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and more, you can't help but be impressed.

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- ddlombardi

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2009 | 2002

6 articles from 2009

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