The Night After Night Archives

Goings On About Town, October 18, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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P.S. It's not in error that I failed to post a Goings On About Town pick for the Oct. 11 issue last week; rather, the events I wrote about were postponed indefinitely and we learned in time to withdraw the listing, which is in storage until its time comes again.

Goings On About Town, October 4, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Goings On About Town, September 27, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Playlist (Safe As Houses).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

King Crimson - Selections from 2021 U.S. Tour (DGMLive; 2021)

Karl Böhm - Lucerne Festival Historic Performances - Vienna Philharmonic (Audite; 2021)

Paul Hindemith - Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra; Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E

Various artists - The Record of Singing: The Very Best of Volumes 1-4 (Warner Classics; 1899-1992/2009)

Van der Graaf Generator - The Charisma Years 1970-1978 (Virgin; 2021)

Julia Den Boer - Kermès (New Focus; due Oct. 22, 2021)

Giulia Lorusso - Déserts; Linda Catlin Smith - The Underfolding; Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Reminiscence; Rebecca Saunders - Crimson

Taku Sugimoto - September Steps (#1, #2, #3, #4) (self-released; 2021)

Jemeel Moondoc - Judy's Bounce (Soul Note; 1982)

Wendy Eisenberg - Bloodletting (Out of Your Head; due Oct. 1, 2021)

Amir Abbey - Dast (self-released; due imminently)

Erin Rogers - 2000 Miles (Relative Pitch; due Sept. 17, 2021)

King Crimson - Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, CA, March 31, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals (Late Music; 2021)

Frank Zappa - The Roxy Performances (Zappa Records; 2018)

inti figgis-vizueta - mayu (the great river) - JACK Quartet (Soundcloud; 2021)

King Crimson - Selections from 2015 U.K. Summer Tour (DGMLive; 2015)

King Crimson - Selections from 2015 Canada Fall Tour (DGMLive; 2015)

King Crimson - Selections from 2015 Japan Winter Tour (DGMLive; 2015)

Goings On About Town, September 20, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Goings On About Town, September 13, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Goings On About Town, September 6, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Goings On About Town, August 30, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Playlist (Once in a Very Blue Moon).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

John Cage - Number Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre; 2021)

John Cage - The Fives (X) - Barton Workshop (Megadisc; 2002)

Orlando Jacinto Garcia - String Quartets Nos. 1-3 - Amernet Quartet (Métier; 2021)

Inter Arma - Sulphur English (Relapse; 2019)

Lei Liang - A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams - Gao Hong, Chien-Kwan Lin, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound; 2018)

Xiaoxiang; Five Seasons; A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams

King Crimson - Richard's Club, Atlanta, GA, June 23, 1973 (DGMLive; 2008)

Frederic Rzewski - From 'Songs of Insurrection' - Bobby Mitchell (Takuroku; 2020)

Ben Phelps | The B Band - Mahler, Symphony No. 5 by Ben Phelps (Cereal Music; 2021)

Cadu Tenório - Are you okay? (self-released; 2021)

CC Sorensen/Gretchen Korsmo - Field Patterns (Full Spectrum; 2021)

Lichens - The Psychic Nature of Being (Kranky; 2005)

Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening (MCA; 1988)

King Crimson - Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL, Feb. 19, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

King Crimson - Auditorium, Miami Beach, FL, Feb. 25, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

King Crimson - Fairground Coliseum, Indianapolis, IN, March 11, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

King Crimson - Sound Track, Denver, CO, March 13, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude; Anton Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8 - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Andris Nelsons (Deutsche Grammophon; 2021)

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos. 1, 14 & 15; Chamber Symphony in C minor - Kristine Opolais, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (Deutsche Grammophon; 2021)

King Crimson - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, March 21, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

Goings On About Town, August 23, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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