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November 10, 2008
Oft called “The Empress of African Song,” the singer died after collapsing during a performance. The first African woman to win a Grammy, she was renowned for her 60s recordings with Harry Belafonte, and her activism. RIP.
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October 27, 2008
Got shaken & stirred under the theater’s dark lights this weekend. Privileged to see the Steve Reich Evening at BAM, in collaboration with the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Reich isn’t for everyone: subtle tonal graduations emerge from his rich rhythms almost imperceptively, requiring a meditative frame of patience to reap listening rewards. For me…
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October 16, 2008
Edie Adams, 1927-2008. Growing up Edie was everywhere: on television variety shows and especially commercials. In my head I still hear her voice, a jazzy belt that could make Muriel Panatella Cigars sound like the coolest thing on earth. Thanks to her, I’m sure that company made a lot of dough. RIP.
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August 10, 2008
Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008. Composer, the penultimate soul man. RIP.
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August 6, 2008
At last night’s performance of Gypsy, the announcer informed us that Patti LuPone had hurt her foot, and would be performing in Isotoners—I thought it was a joke but sure enough, when her Madame Rose storms the stage, the sexy pumps familiar from publicity photos were nowhere in sight. What looked like house slippers proved…
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August 6, 2008
God, Ferrante and Teicher (in this photo, they could be the godfathers of Viktor and Rolf) were everywhere in the 60s, a piano duo competing for listeners’ ears alongside the Beatles and the Supremes. Elevator music, some might say, a sound so deeply embedded in the culture that that era’s hippies conceded they actually gave…
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June 3, 2008
Two ultras, cultural touchstones in wildly disparate ways. Seems like all the cool people are checking out of this world. Imagine–heaven must be hoppin’
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February 20, 2008
My in-laws and I finally met this weekend—their kids treated them to a Manhattan holiday in honor of their 60th wedding anniversary. Lest you brace yourself for a horror story, let me tell you Ken and Gladys are sweethearts, the kind of folks I wanted to trade my own parents in for back when I…
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December 17, 2007
The year-end call to the grave continues. This morning they announced Dan Fogelberg’s death; I’d not heard his name in some time but the sheer mention conjured 1970s visions of late night bowlfuls, Frye boots and Mary Tyler Moore. Auld Lang Syne indeed. Last week it was the same with Ike Turner’s passing, though truth be told, when…
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December 3, 2007
Funny thing about that Broadway strike—I thought the reduced slate of plays and musicals might grant me a reprieve from the monstrous crowds clogging Times Square’s streets, Sephora, the Virgin Megastore and the sidewalk below MTV’s studios in the Minskoff Building. Didn’t happen, so I sucked up the inconvenience, dodging the starry-eyed out of towners…
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