domingo, 15 de mayo de 2011

MUSIC REVIEW


The Beastie Boys, whose new album is “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.”
Phil Andelman
The Beastie Boys, whose new album is “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.”
White rappers have become preservationists of past hip-hop sounds.

Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness

The composer Peter Lieberson, who died last month, never let a crisis go to waste. His difficult experiences enriched his imagination, bringing him closer to the music he wanted to write.
ARTS & LEISURE

Brad Paisley’s Country Underground

In his forthcoming ninth studio album, Brad Paisley offers a more expansive definition of country music.
Eze Schupfer at Junior Kumon in Battery Park City.

Fast-Tracking to Kindergarten?

Enrichment programs like Kumon are gaining from, and generating, parental anxiety about what kind of preparation children need — and whether parents themselves have what it takes to provide it.

J. Lo: The Sequel

The new, user-friendly Jennifer Lopez is back to doing it all, only without the imperious attitude that once propelled her to fame.

For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point

Mari Kimuri has found notes that other violinists thought not possible.
PLAYLIST | ARCTIC MONKEYS

Rock Star Tunes in to the Elders of the Tribe

What Alex Turner, frontman of Artic Monkeys, was listening to when he wrote the album “Suck It and See.”
Cornell Dupree onstage in New York City in 1996.

Cornell Dupree, Guitarist and Sideman to the Stars, Dies at 68

Mr. Dupree played on about 2,500 session dates, by his estimate, for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon and Ringo Starr.

At a 10-Year Reunion, Old Songs and New Voices

A decade ago, 24 children from P.S. 86 in the Bronx went on an unlikely chorus trip to Finland. The journey seemed to show that anything was possible in New York City. Was it?
SPOTLIGHT | NEW BRUNSWICK

For a Gala Concert, 90 Years of Songs

The composer Marvin Hamlisch chose songs dating from 1921 to today for the 90th anniversary gala concert of the State Theater in New Brunswick next Saturday.
MUSIC | CONNECTICUT

As a Festival Expands, Its Needs Do, Too

Comcast, in Hartford, became the setting for Bombfest’s third Memorial Day weekend when Western Connecticut State University pulled out.
Dylan playing for Guthrie in “When Bob Met Woody.”

Picture Books About Folk Music

In these two picture books, an appreciation of folk music is passed from generation to generation.
MUSIC REVIEW

A Little Offbeat Humor in Cyclical Explorations

Bruce Levingston and Colin Jacobsen joined forces at Zankel Hall in the kind of recital for which each has become known: driven by ideas and filled with music old, new and well worth hearing.
MUSIC REVIEW
Oregon Symphony, with Carlos Kalmar, at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, conducting the program “Music for a Time of War.”

Exploring Themes of War, Both the Existential and the Concrete

Carlos Kalmar brings Ives’s “Unanswered Question” (1906) to a program on war, and proposed that for the evening, Ives’s question could be “Why do we go to war?”
The Beaux Arts Trio in the early 1980s: from left, Isidore Cohen, Menahem Pressler and Bernard Greenhouse. The ensemble was known for its refinement and the continuity of its lineup.

Bernard Greenhouse, Acclaimed Cellist, Dies at 95

Mr. Greenhouse was a founder of the Beaux Arts Trio and a member for 32 years.
From Opinion
OPINIONATOR | THE SCORE
A Pitch for New Music

A Pitch for New Music

Baseball fans revel in the past and the present at the same time. Why don't classical music fans do the same?
Times Talks
A Conversation with Emmylou Harris
The country folk singer-songwriter talked to Dana Jennings, a culture editor for The Times, and performed two songs in a recent Times Talks interview.
Multimedia
The Songbook, for a Song
The singers Emily Bergl and Colleen McHugh are keeping the American songbook tradition alive and affordable.
‘Ariadne auf Naxos’
Photos from the production at the Metropolitan Opera.
Artist, Musician, Zelig
Angus MacLise, an original member of the Velvet Underground, didn’t achieve the prominence of others in that group, but a new exhibition suggests he was an influential force in the New York underground.
Behind the Smiles
Insane Clown Posse, the hip-hop do, performed at the Gramercy Theater.
Excerpt: 'Die Walküre'
Bryn Terfel and Deborah Voigt in a scene from Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's opera at the Metropolitan Opera. (Video courtesy of the Met.)

Podcast: Music

This week: Emmylou Harris in conversation and performance; pondering the potentially odd future of Tyler the Creator, and a look at the week’s new releases
THE SCOOP

New York City iPhone App

Get a selection of the listings on your iPhone with The Scoop, The Times’s guide to what to eat, see and do in New York.
From Opinion
OPINIONATOR | THE SCORE
The Composer’s Other Voice

The Composer’s Other Voice

In the conversations about music, politics and culture, why not hear from the composers themselves?
Video Features
Happy Birthday, Stephen Sondheim
An appreciation of some particularly ingenious passages.
Counterpoint
Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The New York Times, explains an important musical technique.
Michael Jackson
The Passing of a Pop Icon
Michael Jackson, the legendary singer, songwriter and dancer, died on June 25, 2009.

Dining & Wine


HEADS UP
By the Rogue River, Myles Anderson shared Walla Walla Vintners wine with Rogue Wilderness Adventures hikers.

Vines and Valleys in Oregon

The combination of hiking and wine tasting has a name: wiking.
Ferran Adrià of El Bulli prepared for a 47-course dinner held by Dom Pérignon.

After El Bulli, a Sweet Taste of Life

The Catalan chef Ferran Adrià has big plans after his fabled restaurant closes in July.
When cut open, the fruit reveals a scoop of sweet pulp speckled with tiny black seeds.

A Fruit With a Future

Suddenly, dragon fruit, the cactus-bred curio, is appearing in too many places to count.
HISTORY UPDATED Ron Levy, at home in Florida, preparing Indian flatbread (naan) and cubed spiced steak in the tandoor oven he invented for use at home.

A Tandoor Oven Brings India’s Heat to the Backyard

A ceramic artist has developed a version of the ancient Indian clay cooking vessels — part oven and part barbecue pit — for home use.
T MAGAZINE

Ristretto | In Philadelphia

The city's 18th-century streets are home to superb coffee, pulled by baristas who are tremendously skilled and disarmingly sweet-natured.
RESTAURANT REVIEW
Inside the National Bar and Dining Rooms, a bistro on the ground floor of the Benjamin Hotel.

The National Bar and Dining Rooms

With a smart, accessible and not terribly expensive menu by the chef Geoffrey Zakarian, the National delivers more than its Midtown location would promise, and handsomely.
Rochelle Ladd, center, and Linda McCoy, sisters who received a James Beard award for their California restaurant, Noriega's, meet José Andrés, who was named the outstanding chef.

The Spotlight Finds a Basque Shepherds’ Canteen

The owners of Noriega’s, a restaurant in a boardinghouse in Bakersfield, Calif., visited New York for the first time to accept an award from the James Beard Foundation.
DINER’S JOURNAL
Eleven Madison Park, ABC Kitchen and Gabrielle Hamilton Win James Beard Awards

Eleven Madison Park, ABC Kitchen and Gabrielle Hamilton Win James Beard Awards

At the James Beard Foundation's annual restaurant and chef awards Monday night, the founder of Prune won Best Chef New York City.
$25 AND UNDER
SLURPABLE Cocoron restaurant on the Lower East Side.

Cocoron

A restaurant on the Lower East Side reinterprets ramen dishes with soba noodles, and the result is thick and lusty.
WINES OF THE TIMES

An Irresistible Austrian Riesling Beckons

The panel tasted 20 Austrian rieslings from recent vintages, wines that are usually refreshing, tangy and energetic with textures.
A GOOD APPETITE
Roasted turkey drumsticks with star anise and soy sauce.

Cherishing the Turkey, All Year Round

Four new ways to enjoy turkey, which tastes as good in May as good as it does in November.
DINER’S JOURNAL
Beer Straight Off the Farm

Beer Straight Off the Farm

For the first time, locally produced beer will be sold at New York City Greenmarkets.
NOSHING Myra Alperson, right, leads one of her

Dining Calendar

A documentary about young farmers; free Korean barbecue from a truck; tastes from the Arctic; and other food and wine events.

Off the Menu

Apl, MP Taverna, Sprinkles Cupcakes and other restaurant openings.
DINER’S JOURNAL
Errata in ‘Modernist Cuisine’

Errata in ‘Modernist Cuisine’

The six-volume cookbook issues 12 pages of corrections.
T MAGAZINE

Fête Accompli | The Last Days of El Bulli

A goodbye party of sorts on Friday featured plenty of boldface names, and a 50-course meal prepared by 50 cooks.
CHOICE TABLES
Trout at Cakes & Ale; feta snack and a salad at Miller Union; “jars” at Empire State South contain snacks like peanut hummus, bacon marmalade, pickles and pimento cheese.

Atlanta Serves Sophisticated Southern

Over the past few years, Atlanta restaurants have taken on a new sophistication, centered on the farm but experienced in the city.
Food Stuff

Bouchon Bakery Starts Cooking at Rockefeller Center

Thomas Keller’s latest will serve breakfast pastries, cookies, sandwiches, soups and salads from morning to early evening.
Blood clams

Blood Clams: Worth a Second Look

Once you get past the name and appearance, you will find that blood clams have a crisp succulence and a flavor that is not as briny as a littleneck or cherrystone clam.

Tortilla Chips of a Different Munchability

Made at a restaurant in Vermont, Gringo Jack’s flaky chips can now be ordered online.