Wednesday Links
Loads of great things floating around the intertubes this week, so take a few minutes and dive in.
- Carl Wilson, music critic for The Globe and Mail has written a brilliant article on identity and false consciousness sparked by the recent brouhaha regarding Barack Obama, bitterness and guns. Here’s a taster: “Obama doesn’t pander and playact the way Wesleyan/Yale girl Hillary Clinton does, insecurely taking on phony accents, dropping her G’s and pretending to be a gun-toting, God-fearing country gal, if that’s the local atmosphere. I don’t think anybody wants that. But Obama hasn’t found an entirely effective alternative.”
- “[Y]ou might propose that the classical concert is an assembly of clowns: the performers in their outfits, with their neuroses and demands; the board members in their finest, with their expectations and desires; all the various audience members, bringing their agendas and days to bear: all of us clowns trying to sit still for 2 hours of music.” From Jeremy Denk’s piece for Take A Friend Of the Orchestra
- Quite possibly the most ridiculous thing Miss Mussel has read in quite some time.
- XLounge by Mark Wentzel, part of the Useless exhibition at Project 4 Gallery in Washington, September 2007.
Lane Savant | Apr 17, 2008 | Reply
Re Denk;
At a rock concert you move around wave little lights in the air and cheer when you feel like it and security will throw you out if you start a fight.
At a classical you sit rigidly and applaud when they tell you to and security will throw you out if you rattle your friggin program.