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March 24, 2010

Night at the Museum

 Reading a recent Los Angeles Times article about musical events taking place in museums, I was struck that this was still, in 2010, worthy of note. Museums have long been a tried-and-true location for musical performance: contemporary happenings in a gallery or more conventional concerts that happen to take place in a museum auditorium. Yes, the events described in the piece specifically involve visuals, but they seem to me a contemporary equivalent of the 1960s-era performances by Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman (“TV Cello”) or Steve Reich or Philip Glass, both of whom cut their teeth performing in New York art galleries, or countless other artists of that era. (Reich’s “Three Tales,” a later video triptych, is a work equally suitable for display in galleries and theaters.) I’ve always been curious, though, about what seems to me a less-explored aspect of museums’ musical presentation: the idea of curating concerts

Originally from The Classical Beat – Classical Music Forum – washingtonpost.com, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Mar 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM

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