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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:37:31 -0500
From: "Jeni Dahmus" <jdahmus@juilliard.edu>
Subject: best of 2001
I haven't had adequate time to absorb all my new CD purchases, so I'll
just list concerts, films, and a few books.
NYC concert highlights, chronological order:
- -Jon Deak solo contrabass, works by Eyvind Kang and Trevor Dunn, Merkin
Hall
- -Hans Werner Henze lecture/demonstration, Piano Quintet, Juilliard
- -RonRuins, Tonic
- -Soldier String Quartet plays Elliott Sharp, Tonic
- -Merce Cunningham Dance Company, City Center
- -Senior Dance Productions, Juilliard: particularly Juan Rodriguez's
Divided by Three, set to Michael Gordon's Weather
- -Berg's Lulu, Metropolitan Opera
- -Orchestra Carbon performs SyndaKit, Central Park Bandshell
- -Cobra 9/29, Tonic (one of the best Cobras I've seen)
- -Zorn's Chimeras; K.S. Sorabji's Prelude, Interlude, and Fugue; Carter's
Enchanted Preludes; Bach arias; Bargemusic (Pianist Stephen Gosling's
performance of Sorabji's monster piece was phenomenal!)
- -Fantomas, Knitting Factory & Anthology Film Archives
- -The Dismemberment Plan, Bowery Ballroom
- -ICP, Tonic
- -Composer Portrait: Zorn, Miller Theatre
Film of the year:
- -Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nick Zedd and Jon Vomit, based on Nietzsche's
book; b&w silent film with fabulous soundtrack by Fear of Dolls, The
Zyklon Beatles, Amniotic Miasma and Strangewalls! (Zedd's newest film
premieres at Collective Unconscious tonight, 10 pm)
Other films:
- -Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff/Daniel Clowes
- -Pie in the Sky: the Brigid Berlin Story, Shelly Dunn Fremont/Vincent
Fremont
- -Downtown 81, Edo Bertoglio, and exhibit
- -Mulholland Drive, David Lynch
Oldies but goodies (I should have seen more films this year. Due to
limited budget, I often rent videos instead):
- -The Kingdom series, Lars von Trier
- -Zoo: A Zed & Two Noughts, Peter Greenaway
- -Julien Donkey Boy, Harmony Korine
- -La Grand Bouffe, Marco Ferreri
- -1984, Michael Radford=20
New fiction titles (nonfiction accounts for most of my reading):
- -Nothing by Paul Morley (a special book)
- -Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement (actually nonfiction in prose
format)
- -Filler Bunny comic by Jhonen Vasquez=20
Jeni
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:51:05 EST
From: TagYrIt@aol.com
Subject: Re: A complicated Coltrane quartet concert question!
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Happy Holidays to all, and a big "thank you" to everyone (especially Steve
Smith) that responded with help and insight into my Coltrane Quartet
question.
Dale.
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:52:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Ryan Novak <ryan_novak@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Sharrock/Guitar Player
>I also read in a great, very in-depth interview with
>Sharrock in Guitar
>Player magazine (!)
No need for exclamation or surprise on my part- I've
thought that, up until a few years ago, Guitar Player
was a great magazine that really seemed to make it a
point to cover avant-garde and experimental guitar
music. Their 30th anniversary issue contained 30 short
articles on ground-breaking guitarists, and Keith Rowe
and Derek Bailey were among many other avant-gardists.
Now the magazine is more typical (due to a few
obviously influential staff leaving), but is still
>up until a few years ago, Guitar Player was a great magazine that >really seemed to make it a point to cover avant-garde and >experimental guitar music. Their 30th anniversary
Wasn't Henry Kaiser a contributing (or advisory) editor?
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:54:13 +0000
From: "Arthur Gadney" <a_gadney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fred] Frith & Zorn
About Frith & Zorn duos....
"Art of Memory" is nice, but I still think they can do much better. My
favorite track is the one where Zorn goes into cicular breathing, and Frith
lays down a wall of rumbling noise behind him. I prefer Frith's guitar
playing when it's at it's most experimental and noisy or at it's most quiet
and melodic. I'm not a big fan of when he gets into "normal rock
distortion"-stuff.
I always wondered why they didn't release the 1988 Victoriaville concert
instead. Maybe this could be a future job for Fred Records??? I know for
sure that very good recordings exist, becaue I have one from Canadian radio.
And the playing is amazing!!! Both Frith and Zorn are really in top shape!!
Especially Frith totally blew away at this concert.
I like "Clearing" and think it's one of the best CDs of the year, but I
would love to see Frith get into even more composed and perhaps melodic
stuff. In the Victoriaville concert there an amazing track where Frith plays
some very bluesy stuff, but still pretty wicked. I would love to hear some
more solo stuff like that. Maybe even some covers of old blues songs???
