McDonagh has collaborated with artists from different disciplines. Composers Lisa Scola Prosek www.scolavox.com and the late Gerhard Samuel. Pianist Ric Louchard. Director Zack successfully translated his poem for three speaking voices " touch and go " to the stage. Actors Sophie Holman premiered his "Sight Unseen -- a theatre piece for one performer "at New York's www.bowerypoetryclub.com, and Hermann Eppert and McDonagh did a film version in Berlin which can be seen on HERMPERT GOOGLE +. He has done tow limited edition books with painter www.garybukvnik.com . And he worked with 3 ace videographers -- Donovan Bauer, Peter Hibdon, and Jose Luis Garcia Nava -- on his first film ALEX NORTH VIVA ZAPATA! 2010 which he wrote and directed, and which premiered 3 May 2010 in Puebla, Mexico, with www.onixensamble.com playing live to it..
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MusicSan Francisco,
Summer has always meant high temperatures and low expectations so I was happily surprised when I encountered the San Francisco Symphony in one of their "pop" programs this July. And the orchestra, which I hadn't heard for several ...
Music
Alejandro Escuer's Mexico City-based quintet Onix Ensamble -- Escuer, flute; Fernando Dominguez, clarinet; Edith Ruiz, piano; Abel Romero, violin; Edgardo Espinosa, cello -- turns 20 this year when just surviving in the new music world is a major achievement. I've ...
MusicNew York,
We like to think that chamber music is an acquired taste but what is chamber music but music played in a room by a few people for a few people or for thousands ? So it's not just the Mexico- ...
Art & ArchitectureNew York,
We think we know what things are about when we see them. Sure, they are what they are, but how could they not be, and if things were only that we wouldn't need art, and our latest phony "deep" buzz ...
Art & ArchitectureNew York,
It's important to remind people that the West is the new kid on the block because our narcissistic Euro centric worldview is always telling us that "we" did everything first, and everyone else is a late arrival. But that, of ...
FilmCA,
You'd think you were living on another planet, or in at the very least an alternate reality when you leave your house after watching the news. Is everyone out to get you, and is the world really falling apart at ...
Art & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Everyone wants to fit in, even artists. But Alex Katz has never fit into mainstream modernism, or what passes for postmodernism today. Art historians and the general public have tried to pigeonhole him as a pop artist because he uses ...
Books & CDs
Celebrity is a funny thing. One minute you're in, the next out--or controversial like Madonna, who's both versatile and successful. But could she be too successful? Well, the bloodhounds in the press are always ready for the kill. ...
Music
Online references on Akhnaten Opera has from the very beginning focussed on myth and ritual. So Philip Glass' three act Akhnaten (1984), which was seen as an oddity by some at its Stuttgart ...
Music
Arias from Siroe can be found on the following recordings: Handel - The Rival Queens Glorious Handel - Soprano Arias Online references on Siroe Period instrument orchestras used to be few and far ...
