Nico vs. fucking Brits
Brit crit calls Nico Muhly’s work “slow, painful death”; Nico calls Brit crit “cunty” and makes fun of the funny way they spell stuff. Which means that the 2011 premiere of Two Boys at ENO should be great fun for all us sport fans. [The Guardian]
OY!
Earplugs will be included with each set of opera glasses.
I can’t wait for ReNAY’s recording of “Do I know you from Somewhere?”
Shorttop – I’m sorry; but do you need a passport to enter your world?… To say that John Adams and Elliott Carter (yes, you really ought to learn how to spell the name of this composer that you admire so much) are ignored in this country is so far wide of the mark as to be laughable! In a small country, major companies have mounted productions of Nixon in China (twice!), Dr Atomic and the Death of Klinghoffer in the last 5 years or so! And Carter’s works are often commissioned by UK arts bodies.
Oftenadmonished, thank you for saving me the bother of correcting shorttop. I’ll just add that I’m surprised at just how often Carter does get programmed in London. When I was doing my degree and hence attending as much live contemporary music as I could, I was struck by just how much gets presented in this city from all major post-war names, American or otherwise.
Incidentally, I once met Charlotte Higgins at a party, during which she said to me ‘I know nothing about classical music’. It is remarkable just how often that comes across in her writing, not that the above article is necessarily a case in point.
#21: That’s what happens when Garageband gets a virus.
By his sophomoric attempt at humoUr (oh so clever), It would seem to me that Mr. Muhly has as loose a grasp on the realities of language as he does on music-making.
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