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Mon, 18 Aug 2008
It's Nesting Season
Only in New York: the choreographer Richard Move is a
fixture in the gay club scene and a Martha Graham
impersonator. His collaborators have included Blondie,
Mikhail Baryshnikov and 16 Greco-Roman wrestlers. Today, as
part of "Hostile Takevoers," a week of performances for
the free Sitelines series, his group MoveOpolis! presents
"Hesperornis Regalis (Seabird)," a site-specific work in
the South Street Seaport's mall atrium. Channeling Kabuki,
a single dancer will go avian, building a nest and
"incubating" eggs. Once again: only in New York.
"Summer in
the City and Its Outdoors Spaces," by Claudia La Rocco
"One of the Deadly Sins, And a Conundrum Too," by John
Rockwell
more at NY Times, here
and here
According to the Recording Industry Assn., shipments of vinyl soared 36.6%
from 2006 to 2007. That amounts to 1.3 million units nationwide. While the numbers
are minuscule compared to CD shipments of 511 million for 2007, the news is much-welcomed
by a faltering music industry.
"This is a little bright star," said Jane Ventom, vice president for Hollywood-based
EMI Music Marketing. Next month, Capitol/EMI will launch "From the Capitol Vaults,"
with the release of 13 titles on vinyl, including Radiohead's "OK Computer" and
Steve Miller Band's "Greatest Hits 1974-1978."
Baby boomers, many of whom had long tucked away their turntables, began to feel
nostalgic for their youth and the warm sound of vinyl. Concurrently, a younger
generation, raised on CDs and tinny, compressed MP3 files, traded in their
earbuds for a less isolated music experience.
Long the provenance of indie record stores, vinyl can now be found at such mass
marketers as Best Buy and Costco.
"I have family friends whose 10-year-olds are asking for turntables," said Tom
"Grover" Biery, Warner Bros. Records' executive vice president of promotion
and the Burbank-based label's vinyl guru.
more at LA Times