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Although the show will focus on classical and jazz artists, Sedgwick has considered expanding the program to include ethnic and folk music...
...under-under-card for the Damn Personals, Benson strapped on a white guitar, took on TT’s minimalist stage and cramped confines and wordlessly launched into his 45-minute set with “Folk Singer” off Lapalco, from which he drew most of his performance. As a performer, Benson remained largely static and stone-faced (he left epileptic gyrations to his tambourine and maracas man), even failing to identify the members of his backup band. His workman-like approach brought focus more to the music than to performance, but also somewhat alienated an audience obviously...
...course offerings. Only one undergraduate course in the music department focuses on music created by people of African descent, even though much of the world’s music has been created by this population, including jazz, spirituals, blues, gospel, rap, country, rock-n-roll, meringue, folk, samba, reggae, ragtime and calypso. The de-colonization movements in Africa, the abolitionist movements of the 19th century and the recent Civil Rights and Black Power movements in America have been powerful incubators for black philosophers, yet the philosophy department has not deemed any of these thinkers substantive enough to contribute to discussions...
...Everyone was a radical, except an enlightened few. Koch was not, not at all. Born in 1909, he was self-taught, spent all his life in New York (except for a period of study in Paris) and died in 1978. There were quite a few reasons for well-thinking folk of a conventionally radical disposition not to take him seriously. One: he was a figurative painter. Two: he and his wife Dora Zaslavsky, a noted piano coach, were reasonably well off from his bread-and-butter work of portraiture (which, wisely, is not allowed to dominate this show), and they...
...They’re doing a good job. They just need to keep building shops. Everything’s changing—but it’s you young folk who have to deal with it,” Neil says. “It’s a nice little community to shop—lots of people don’t have cars, and they can get here...