Kronos Quartet at NYUAD and NYC

  Bryan and I had the good fortune last week to be able to hear the visionary Kronos Quartet twice each during their week-long residence at NYU Abu Dhabi where we’re presently teaching. The ensemble played at NYUAD Arts Center’s Black Box...

And I fell …

The good folks at genius.com asked me to annotate a passage from my 33 1/3 volume on Television’s Marquee Moon. Here’s what I came up with: Read

John Cale on I’ve Got a Secret, 1963

From Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: [John] Cage’s definitive refutation of Beethoven came in the form of an epic, almost daylong performance of Erik Satie’s piano piece Vexations. The original score is only a page long and would normally take just a minute...