Garrison Keillor REALLY Wants To Talk About Tom Lehrer And Lyrics & Lyricists
As we mentioned here earlier, Garrison Keillor had Debra Monk & Rob Fisher on stage for the latest A Prairie Home Companion, where they discussed the upcoming Lyrics & Lyricists™ next weekend—which Monk and Fisher will be performing in.
Well...David Garrison, writer & stage director for next weeks L&L, just stopped by the offices at 92nd Street Y to check on a few things, and he has informed us that Fisher, Monk and himself have been invited back to tomorrow’s A Prairie Home Companion!
A Prairie Home Companion will be recorded in front of an audience at Town Hall this Saturday at 6pm. WNYC broadcasts it live, check their schedule here (PDF).
Tickets to Lyrics & Lyricists™—Poisoning Pigeons in the Park: The Art of the Satiric Comedy Song for May 8, 9 and 10 can be purchased here.
Related: The music of Tom Lehrer, which we featured here recently, was showcased today on NPR’s Fresh Air: Tom Lehrer: ‘60s Satirist Still Strikes A Chord
UPDATE: More L&L related news! Sheldon Harnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist and host of Lyrics & Lyricists™—Poisoning Pigeons in the Park: The Art of the Satiric Comedy Song, was in the WQXR studio yesterday (on his 86th birthday!) and sat down for an hour-long interview. Listen here.
Search and Destroy: Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power
Iggy & The Stooges - “Raw Power” Documentary (The Bowie Mix)
In a new documentary on Iggy Pop and other members of the Stooges that relives the making of their seminal punk album Raw Power, Henry Rollins (Black Flag) told the camera: “Raw Power was one of those records since I was 20, where you listen to it and you still are as astonished by it as the first time you heard it.”
92YTribeca is screening the documentary next Friday at 7 and 9pm. Rock ‘n Roll photographer Mick Rock, “The Man Who Shot the Seventies,” will be present following the screening for discussion moderated by Anthony DeCurtis.
Search and Destroy: Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power is available on DVD as part of the brand new Raw Power Deluxe Collector’s Edition along with the original 1973 Bowie mix of the album, one-hour+ of audio rarities and outtakes from the Raw Power era, the live one-hour 1973 “Georgia Peaches” show, Japanese pic-sleeve 7” vinyl, 48pg photo / essay book, and five exquisite 5” x 7” Raw Power prints! This box set is only available on www.iggyandthestoogesmusic.com
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Shapiro, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, uses the fight over Shakespeare’s identity to show how our views of the past are shaped by the contingencies of the evidence that reaches us, and how we’re swayed by the changing spiritual weather of our own time. Though dozens of alternate authors have been proposed over the years — four more while he worked on the book, he writes — he concentrates here on what he calls the two “best-documented and most consequential” candidacies: those of the philosopher and courtier Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The shifts in their reputations over the last 150 years have been sufficiently extreme to think of them as the reverse of Ben Jonson’s famous praise of Shakespeare: they were not for all time, but of an age.
On Sunday, May 2, as part of the Books & Bagels series, join Shapiro at the 92nd Street Y for a talk by one of our most renowned Shakespeare scholars.
Related: On May 10, “Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners will read from their work. Tickets can be purchased here, and are just $10.00 for those aged 35 and under.
Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey at the 92nd Street Y as sketched by Claudia Carlson
Blogger, poet, sketch artist and new favorite guest of the 92nd Street Y Claudia Carlson attended the Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey reading on Monday evening.
This is not the first time Claudia has honored the guests on stage with a sketch. She drew Chip Kidd and Neil Gaiman at their event in November, 2008.
And that’s not all! When illustrator Norn Custon was in attendance for Anthony DeCurtis’s interview with Yoko Ono in 2007, guess what he did? Yup, he drew Yoko.
Any other artists in the house? Have you drawn, painted, sketched, created a dance interpretation or a claymation film of any our events? Let us know in the comments! Maybe you’ve sketched one of our Tweets? (Hey, it’s not as weird as it sounds).
Related: On May 10, “Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners will read from their work. Tickets can be purchased here, and are just $10.00 for those aged 35 and under.
Cassandra Freeman reads excerpts from Nina Simone’s autobiography I Put a Spell on You
On Wednesday evening at 92YTribeca, Tom Blunt presented a screening of the 1976 Nina Simone concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The night included Cassandra Freeman reading excerpts from Nina Simone’s autobiography, plus a comedic summoning of Nina Simone’s spirits and a surprise visit from “Lady Gaga”, who spoke of Simone’s influence.
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Upcoming screenings at 92YTribeca include Holy Rollers, (TONIGHT!), The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival (May 1) and The Manchurian Candidate (May 5).
Related: On May 10, “Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners will read from their work. Tickets can be purchased here, and are just $10.00 for those aged 35 and under.
Garrison Keillor Wants To Talk About Tom Lehrer And Lyrics & Lyricists
L-R: Debra Monk, Rob Fisher, Garrison Keillor
Last week we shared a video of Tom Lehrer performing his hilarious take on spring time: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. Lehrer is the focus of the upcoming Lyrics & Lyricists™—Poisoning Pigeons in the Park: The Art of the Satiric Comedy Song on May 8, 9 and 10.
We also want to report that Debra Monk & Rob Fisher, who will be performing on Lyrics & Lyricists™, accompanied Garrison Keillor’s on the latest broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion last week. We don’t want to spoil the fun, so we’ll just give you a hint...listen here at the 46:46 mark for a special shout-out and mention!
Learn more, watch videos, read the FAQ, and find all the information you need about Camp Yomi here. Registration forms are here (PDF). You can also contact us at 212.415.5573 or by email. We look forward to hearing from you!
You can also join our Facebook to get the latest information, announcements, videos and more. That’s where the video above came from! The Camp Yomi Facebook page is also a great way to connect with other campers and make friends, or talk about your favorite classes. Join the 92Y Camp Yomi Facebook page!
The 92Y School of Music is presenting three of our Recanati-Kaplan merit scholars in a free master class with renowned pianist Benjamin Hochman tomorrow, Thursday, April 29, 2010 from 5:00-6:30pm in Weill Art Gallery. The event is not on the calendar. It is free of charge and open to the public, so tell all your friends!
General Petraeus utilizing a PowerPoint presentation at the 92nd Street Y last week / Photo Credit: Joyce Culver
Above, Gen. David H. Petraeus uses a PowerPoint on stage at the 92nd Street Y last week. So it was with interest that we read today’s report in The New York Times on PowerPoints as the bane of military commanders everywhere:
Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, for one, is not fan. The Times reported McMaster: “banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005...”
The paper of record also spoke to Gen. David H. Petraeus, who confided that although sitting through PowerPoints was “just agony,” he appreciates the ability to of PowerPoints to display trends and maps. “He has,” wrote The Times, “also conducted more than a few PowerPoint presentations himself.”
Indeed he has. As a matter of fact, during his lecture at 92Y, the General even had a few quips about needing to know how to use it. He gave special mention to the laser pointer as one perk of having to give a PowerPoint presentation!
Browse all upcoming Lectures & Conversations at 92Y, and remember that Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of the State of New York will be here on May 2. Read more on the 92Y Blog, and if you have any questions for Mr. Spitzer, let us know and we will do our best to get it to him during the Q&A.
The video above features an excerpt from Children of the Bible by director Nitza Gonen. The film focuses on the Israeli rapper and informal educator Jeremy “Cool” Abash who works towards changing the humiliated and depressed image of the Ethiopian community in Israel, both in its own eyes and in the eyes of Israeli society, by bringing members of the Ethiopian community closer to their tradition—the songs, the meaning of Ethiopian names, stories about the lives of the Ethiopian community and the journey that has taken on mythical proportions.
The film is part of the BINA Cultural Foundation‘s 7th Annual Sheba Film Festival, and will screen at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday May 2, followed by a panel discussion. Tickets are available for purchase here.
And don’t forget tonight’s special concert with Israel’s international pop star, Noa, and guest star Mira Awad.
Daytime: SoHo Chocolate Tour with Francine Segan. Visit SoHo’s most innovative chocolate shops, taste samples and learn about the fascinating world of chocolate.
Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art21: This multi-media event invites you to test your knowledge of current art, film, music and online cultural phenomena.
Music: La Excelencia: One of the stand out highlights of this year’s Globalfest, La Excelencia has become one of the most sought out salsa orchestras in the world, selling out wherever they play and continuing to build a loyal fan base worldwide.
Film: Holy Rollers: Special sneak preview screening. Inspired by true events from the late nineties when young men from Brooklyn Hasidic communities were caught internationally trafficking ecstasy from Europe into the United States.
New Parent Get Togethers / Birth-12 mos. Join us for a lively, weekly get-together to share, learn and make new friends.
Toddler Parent Get Togethers / 1-3 yrs. Parents, drop in to discuss important topics with a parent education specialist while toddlers play in nearby play area.
Astronomy: Moon Lights with Carter Emmart. NASA’s October 9, 2009 mission to find signs of water on the moon didn’t work. What signs were they looking for and why?
Dr. Robert Holden: Be Happy. Renowned happiness expert and best-selling author Dr. Robert Holden shares the secrets to happiness and success. A booksigning will follow the event.
Did you ever want to get a question answered by one of our lecturers? Here’s your chance! We picked a few upcoming guests that might get you thinking, and started a discussion page on Facebook. Feel free to leave a comment with your question for them, or any other upcoming lecturer for that matter.
We’ll make it even cooler, if your question gets used on stage during the Q&A—like we did with Ted Koppel—you get the glorious recognition as well as two free tickets to an upcoming lecture of your choice, pending availability.
We’ve picked three upcoming events and guests for consideration, but feel free to send questions for any event: Alan Brinkley with Frank Rich (May 11); Sean Hayes in Conversation with Jordan Roth (May 24 at 92YTribeca); and Why Documentaries Matter with Rosie O’Donnell and Other Guests including Sheila Nevins, DA Pennebaker. Chris Hegedus, Al Maysles, and Alexandra Pelosi (May 26).
In the clip above, Matisyahu explains what Judaism means to him: “I think Judaism is fully a global religion. I think the main ideas in Judaism have inspired so many religions and so many people around the world. So, I think that’s what Judaism can be, and that’s what Judaism should be.”
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