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).
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