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Sizwe Banzi is Dead

Commentator John Rockwell examines two recent performances of South Africana: Pieter-Dirk Uys’s “Elections and Erections” at Harvard and the revival of “Sizwe Banzi is Dead” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and looks into his own role in the field some ten years ago while at the Lincoln Center Festival.
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I think it’s safe to say that Evening Music listeners are music lovers. At some point in your past you had a musical experience that changed you, that opened you to the power of music.
 
For me it probably happened at some of the concerts I saw when I was young: the British band Soft Machine […]

Since last Wednesday I’ve gone to three concerts and watched one basketball game. Two concerts were in honor of Frederic Rzewski, a composer whose music is often socially and politically charged. For Thursday’s concert at Carnegie, the contemporary music ensemble Opus 21 honored the 70 year old composer by performing his seminal piece “Attica” — […]

Sheu Fang-yi

Multiculturalism is heating up the dance communities, with performers of far-ranging descents bringing their traditions and styles to bear on our American scene. Commentator John Rockwell considers two excited cases: Taiwanese-born, Martha Graham-technique trained Fang-Yi Sheu and London-born, but of Bangladeshi-descent, Akram Khan.
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I was so intrigued by your responses to last weekend’s Blog, that I want to read more. I invited listeners to tell me what they were doing while listening to Weekend Evening Music. Answers ranged from cooking, relaxing, reading, and solving crossword puzzles while naked, to novel-writing, painting, sewing, biophysics research, having […]