Night After Night

Goings On About Town, November 5, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 5, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 31-November 6. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

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Goings On About Town, October 29, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 29, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 24-30. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online has been repaired, but I'll provide them again here anyway. Why not? (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

Ralph van Raat: Weill Recital Hall (Oct. 24); Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Tamara Stefanovich: Zankel Hall (Oct. 25) [link]

The Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St. [link]

Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th St. [link]

Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Ave. [link]

 

 

Goings On About Town, October 22, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 22, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 17-23. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online is still going strong, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

Baruch Performing Arts Center, One Bernard Baruch Way (25th St. between Lexington & Third Aves.) [link]

Spectrum, 70 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn [link]

DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W. 37th St. [link]

55 Walker St. [link]

Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center [link]

The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St. [link]

 

Goings On About Town, October 15, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 15, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 10-16. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online is still doing its thing, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St. [link]

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center (Oct. 10, 12, 13 8pm); Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center (Oct. 13 10:30pm); Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School (Oct. 14) [link]

Tenri Cultural Center, 43 W. 13th St. (Oct. 13, 19); Americas Society, 680 Park Ave. (Oct. 15, 17) [link]

Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W. 37th St. [link]

Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn [link]

 

Goings On About Town, October 8, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 8, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 3-9. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online remains at large, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center (Oct. 4-6); Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Oct. 7) [link]

Owl Music Parlor, 497 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn [link]

Japan Society, 333 E. 47th St. [link]

DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W. 37th St. [link]

Goings On About Town, October 1, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 1, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 26-October 2. I don't have any clue why the venues are not mentioned in these online listings – usually they're visible until an event has passed – so I provided them on Twitter and I'll do it here as well. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

Issue Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn. [link]

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. [link]

Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. [link]

Goings On About Town, September 24, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the September 24, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 19-25. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

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Goings On About Town, September 17, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the September 17, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 11-18. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

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Goings On About Town, September 10, 2018.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the September 10, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 5-11. No, your eyes do not deceive you: Each of these events happens on September 7 (though happily, one provides a wider range of options)… and this isn't even everything happening that particular night. Sheesh.

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Tony Malaby at the Internet Café (Village Voice R.I.P.).

I wrote for the Village Voice only one time, very early in my professional career, at the tail end of the full-time jazz journalism stage that preceded my return to classical music after around five years of estrangement. The article was published Feb. 27, 2001, or so the website tells me. That I never returned to the Voice was not because of dissatisfaction on anyone's part; I was just getting too busy with my new line of work for Billboard.

There are plenty of things I still like about the article, a "Regulars" column on Tony Malaby in residence at the Internet Café, one of the crucial hangs in the mid-to-late '90s. I'm especially fond of the bit about Malaby and Tim Berne repeatedly bending at the waist while they played, "like the insatiable 'drinking birds' everyone's grandfather used to have." One detail I reported and enjoyed was cut by the editor: while Malaby and Berne were blowing fire, Wynton Marsalis was directly overhead, pontificating at length in the Ken Burns Jazz series on a TV with the sound turned off.

But there's also a bit in the article that embarrasses me so profoundly now that I've never shared it, either on this blog or on social media. It's a passing bit of casual snobbery meant to help evoke the setting, the inclusion of which now smells too much like a sexist jibe for me to make peace with it. I regret writing it, and I'm sorry it's out there as part of my permanent record.

Still, if today is the day the Village Voice died, then I suppose I can celebrate my one little, tiny piece of it. As for the rest: we live, we learn, we atone and try to do better.

The Tony Malaby column is here, but I'm going to quote the complete text after the page break… just in case.