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The Circus Tumbles In, to the Sound of the ’70s
Music Review
The Circus Tumbles In, to the Sound of the ’70s
By JON PARELES
Published: January 5, 2011
Rock and the circus made a wary liaison when circus acts joined indie-rockers at the Big Apple Circus tent in Damrosch Park on Tuesday night for the Rock & Roll Circus. On Monday, at the end of a free concert in the same tent, fans of the punky Brooklyn band Japanther had swarmed into the ring for moshing and crowd-surfing, so alarming the circus’s security people that the show was shut down after three songs.
Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
Ariel Pink performs at the Rock and Roll Circus.
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Tuesday’s bill, with paid admission, nonpunk bands and Big Apple Circus acts interspersed with the music, had a different tone. Aska on keyboards and Nick Zinner (from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) on guitar started the evening with quietly woozy oom-pah-pah circus waltzes. People happily oohed and applauded for the aerialist and the pony act, and did the wave at the bidding of the meticulously costumed drag-queen ringmaster, Acid Betty. But when the headliner, Ariel Pink, started climbing one of the scaffoldinglike tent poles as he sang, security guards rushed over and demanded in no uncertain terms that he climb down. He did, maintaining a nonchalance that lasted through his brief set.
Ariel Pink is a self-made cult phenomenon, a studio-dwelling songorrheic character like Prince or, closer in musical style, Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices. For a decade Ariel Pink has been recording hundreds of low-fi pop songs that reclaim some of the cheesiest sounds of old AM radio, particularly from the 1970s and 1980s. He adds a craftsman’s convolutions to the structures and tops them with lyrics that can be wistfully lovelorn or willfully twisted: “Rape me, castrate me, make me gay/Lady, I’m a lady from today,” he sang in “Menopause Man” from his 2010 album, “Before Today.”
He wore shades and an amateurishly bleached Kurt Cobain-style hairdo, with a reddish-pink striped jersey and pants. He didn’t bring a band, just backing tracks, and he had two women from the Big Apple Circus as his go-go girls, dancing and hula-hooping in the ring with him. His deadpan manner never waivered as he wandered around the ring and into the audience, crooning his choruses and falsetto hooks. The set was a hip, aloof in-joke that ended when he strolled up an aisle as he sang and continued out an exit, not to return.
Revivalism from the ’70s dominated the lineup. Saint Motel, from Los Angeles, reanimated power pop with lean guitar riffs, the long-breathed melodies that A/J Jackson sang in his smiley tenor, and a willingness to veer in noisy directions. Wearing uniform white shirts the band members reveled in the space of the ring, with Mr. Jackson jittering all around, dropping to his knees and at one point playing guitar on his back.
Amazing Baby, from Brooklyn, was less mobile onstage and made a denser sound. Will Roan sang about troubled romance in a surge of walloping drumbeats and guitar-strumming: glam-rock as filtered, perhaps, through My Morning Jacket.
There was little interplay between the bands and the circus. Performers risking their lives in midair naturally wanted the musical cues they’re used to, although some circus acts briefly danced as the bands played. But as the songwriter Aska created plinking Minimalist patterns and sang dreamlike incantations, five female Mongolian contortionists shared the platform, twining their bodies into their own astonishing patterns. For a little while there was synergy.
Ariel Pink is a self-made cult phenomenon, a studio-dwelling songorrheic character like Prince or, closer in musical style, Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices. For a decade Ariel Pink has been recording hundreds of low-fi pop songs that reclaim some of the cheesiest sounds of old AM radio, particularly from the 1970s and 1980s. He adds a craftsman’s convolutions to the structures and tops them with lyrics that can be wistfully lovelorn or willfully twisted: “Rape me, castrate me, make me gay/Lady, I’m a lady from today,” he sang in “Menopause Man” from his 2010 album, “Before Today.”
He wore shades and an amateurishly bleached Kurt Cobain-style hairdo, with a reddish-pink striped jersey and pants. He didn’t bring a band, just backing tracks, and he had two women from the Big Apple Circus as his go-go girls, dancing and hula-hooping in the ring with him. His deadpan manner never waivered as he wandered around the ring and into the audience, crooning his choruses and falsetto hooks. The set was a hip, aloof in-joke that ended when he strolled up an aisle as he sang and continued out an exit, not to return.
Revivalism from the ’70s dominated the lineup. Saint Motel, from Los Angeles, reanimated power pop with lean guitar riffs, the long-breathed melodies that A/J Jackson sang in his smiley tenor, and a willingness to veer in noisy directions. Wearing uniform white shirts the band members reveled in the space of the ring, with Mr. Jackson jittering all around, dropping to his knees and at one point playing guitar on his back.
Amazing Baby, from Brooklyn, was less mobile onstage and made a denser sound. Will Roan sang about troubled romance in a surge of walloping drumbeats and guitar-strumming: glam-rock as filtered, perhaps, through My Morning Jacket.
There was little interplay between the bands and the circus. Performers risking their lives in midair naturally wanted the musical cues they’re used to, although some circus acts briefly danced as the bands played. But as the songwriter Aska created plinking Minimalist patterns and sang dreamlike incantations, five female Mongolian contortionists shared the platform, twining their bodies into their own astonishing patterns. For a little while there was synergy.
En este día...
 | Thursday, January 06th The 006th day of 2011. There are 359 days left in the year. |
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Today's Highlights in History |  | ||
 See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. (Go to article.) On Jan. 6, 1882, Sam Rayburn, who served for more than 48 years in the U.S. House of Representatives (1913-61), was born. Following his death on Nov. 16, 1961, his obituary appeared in The Times. | ||
 | On January 6, 1872, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Tweed Ring. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) | ||
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| 1412 | According to tradition, Joan of Arc was born in Domremy, France. |
| 1540 | England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. |
| 1759 | George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married. |
| 1838 | Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J. |
| 1912 | New Mexico became the 47th state. |
| 1941 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of "Four Freedoms" for the world: freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of people to worship God in their own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear. |
| 1945 | George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y. |
| 1993 | Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died at age 75. |
| 1994 | Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg in an assault planned by the ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding. |
| 2001 | With the vanquished Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress certified Republican George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election. |
| 2005 | Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison.) |
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 AP Photo/Matt Rourke Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel turns 30 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sam Rayburn | |
 1/6/1882 - 11/16/1961 American Speaker of the House (Go to obit.) | |
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| 70 | Martin Agricola 1/6/1486 - 6/10/1556 German composer and teacher |
| 50 | Jakob Bernoulli 1/6/1655 - 8/16/1705 Swiss mathematician |
| 63 | Charles Sumner 1/6/1811 - 3/11/1874 American Civil War statesman |
| 68 | Heinrich Schliemann 1/6/1822 - 12/26/1890 German-born Greek excavator |
| 86 | Victor Horta 1/6/1861 - 9/8/1947 Belgian architect |
| 89 | Carl Sandburg 1/6/1878 - 7/22/1967 American poet and novelist |
| 67 | Joseph Medill Patterson 1/6/1879 - 5/26/1946 American journalist and publisher |
| 60 | Tom Mix 1/6/1880 - 10/12/1940 American silent screen actor |
| 48 | Khalil Gibran 1/6/1883 - 4/10/1931 Lebanese-born American novelist and poet |
| 88 | Morris Wright 1/6/1910 - April/25/1998 American author |
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miércoles, 5 de enero de 2011
En este día...
| Wednesday, January 05th The 005th day of 2011. There are 360 days left in the year. |
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| Today's Highlights in History | | ||
 See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day. (Go to article.) | ||
| On January 5, 1878, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Balkans. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) | ||
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| 1781 | A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va. |
| 1896 | The Austrian newspaper Wiener Presse reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as an X-ray. |
| 1925 | Nellie T. Ross succeeded her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in U.S. history. |
| 1933 | Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, died in Northampton, Mass., at age 60. |
| 1949 | In his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his domestic program the "Fair Deal." |
| 1970 | The soap opera "All My Children" premiered on ABC-TV. |
| 1972 | President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle. |
| 1973 | Bruce Springsteen's debut album, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.," was released. |
| 1981 | Police in England arrested Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of the "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women. |
| 1994 | Former House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill died in Boston at age 81. |
| 2004 | After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose publicly admitted that he'd bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. |
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| Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky | |
 1/5/1863 (1/17/1863 N.S.) - 8/7/1938 Russian actor, producer, teacher and philosopher of theater (Go to obit.) | |
| 69 | Francisco Suárez 1/5/1548 - 9/25/1617 Spanish theologian |
| 74 | Shah Jahan 1/5/1592 - 1/22/1666 Mughal emperor of India and builder of the Taj Mahal |
| 34 | Zebulon Montgomery Pike 1/5/1779 - 4/27/1813 American army officer and explorer |
| 41 | Stephen Decatur 1/5/1779 - 3/22/1820 American naval officer |
| 77 | King Camp Gillette 1/5/1855 - 7/9/1932 American inventor and manufacturer |
| 91 | Konrad Adenauer 1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 First chancellor of West Germany (1949-63) |
| 77 | Henry Sloane Coffin 1/5/1877 - 11/25/1954 American clergyman |
| 76 | Herbert Bayard Swope 1/5/1882 - 6/20/1958 American journalist and editor |
| 55 | Yves Tanguy 1/5/1900 - 1/15/1955 French Surrealist painter |
| 87 | Stella Gibbons 1/5/1902 - 12/19/1989 English novelist and poet |
| 87 | Hubert Beuve-Méry 1/5/1902 - 8/6/1989 French publisher and editor of "Le Monde" |
| 72 | Dame Kathleen Kenyon 1/5/1906 - 8/24/1978 English archaeologist |
| 58 | Alvin Ailey Jr. 1/5/1931 - 12/1/1989 American choreographer and dancer; founded Ailey American Dance Theater |
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El biólogo que salvó a Londres de las bombas
El biólogo que salvó a Londres de las bombas
Aplicando la teoría de la aparición de mutaciones en la genética de poblaciones al modo en que bombardeaban los alemanes, Haldane informó a Churchill que no había dudas, que los aviones de los boches al llegar a las cercanías de Londres, simplemente, dejaban caer sus bombas donde buenamente podían, acertando por pura casualidad.
De este modo, continuó, la población debería seguir viviendo donde siempre y los refugios antiaéreos se deberían construir en esos mismos puntos. Proponía, asimismo, que cualquier sitio que pudiera albergar aviones se convirtiera en un pequeño aeródromo —se diseminaron miniaeródromos a lo largo y ancho de todas las islas— y que las baterías para la defensa antiaérea se ubicaran donde fuera más fácil colocarlas.
Según contaban colaboradores del biólogo años después, Haldane terminó su alocución con una sesuda exposición de las estrategias que siguen los grandes predadores para encontrar los bancos de peces en el mar y qué estrategias siguen los pececillos para minimizar sus posibilidades de encontrarse con un depredador.
En un momento donde incluso muchos de los colegas de sir Wiston eran partidarios de la rendición, pues nada podía hacerse ante la invencible maquinaria de guerra nazi, los cálculos de Haldane reavivaron la esperanza del premier y su determinación de luchar. Su resistencia a los nazis era la última esperanza frente a los totalitarismos. Su rendición, sin duda, habría cambiado el curso de la Historia.
La Batalla de Inglaterra se prolongó casi un año; pero desde la visita del científico escocés, los nazis tenían la sensación permanente de estar perdiendo la batalla, y además no lograban el objetivo para iniciar la invasión terrestre: acabar con la RAF. Terminaba mayo de 1941 y Hitler cambió sus preferencias en el tablero de la guerra; los británicos no capitulaban, así que dio media vuelta y se lanzó de lleno a la Operación Barbarroja: la conquista de la URSS.
Haldane, satisfecho por lo menos con haberse expresado, abandonó el Ministerio y reanudó su actividad académica (el reconocimiento público le llegó como uno de los padres de la genética de poblaciones, junto con Ronald Fisher y Sewall Wright, así como por su aportaciones al conocimiento del origen de la vida).
Años después, pero en la misma contienda, el general Curtis LeMay, jefe del mando estratégico de bombarderos norteamericanos en el Pacífico durante la guerra con Japón, aprendió gracias a Haldane que no se podía bombardear como los nazis: dirigió una campaña de bombardeo estratégico contra las ciudades japonesas, a las que arrasó totalmente siguiendo un patrón de bombardeo sistemático. Esta estrategia era tan destructiva que LeMay comentó que, si los aliados hubiesen perdido la guerra, sin duda él hubiera sido considerado el principal criminal de guerra.
Haldane, afiliado desde su juventud al partido comunista, abandonó sus filas en 1956 y, un año después, Gran Bretaña para exilarse a India (en gran parte debido a los enfrentamientos que mantuvo con sus colegas), donde prosiguió con sus investigaciones y donde acabó adoptando su nacionalidad. Churchill, entró por la puerta grande de la Historia, entre otros méritos, por algo tan sencillo como saber escuchar.
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