Excuses excuses
Something went terribly wrong with my computer yesterday, and it won't be fixed until tomorrow at the earliest, which makes doing even the most basic tasks (especially the most basic tasks) about 30% harder. So I'm not blogging today.
Except to point you here, to check out this girl's experience at SOBs last night, where an impromptu rap battle broke out between Common, Kanye, Mos Def and others.
Also, I went to see the NY Phil Tuesday night in Central Park. It was awesome. Not usually the type of music I write about, but I really enjoyed their performance of Mussorgsky/Ravel's Pictures at an Exhibition. The Promenade was familiar to me (and probably to you too, if you heard it — it's the first movement in the video below), but I wasn't really that familiar with the piece as a whole. The story it tells (as well as the story behind it) is really interesting.
(this person has the entire work up, if you're interested.)
Sad to say, the Philharmonics in the Parks series is over for this summer, but don't sleep on it next year. It's one of those things that makes living in New York as special as it is </cheese>
eh, www.amNY.com
UPDATE:
Apparently Emerson, Lake and Palmer covered the whole suite in 1971. Ah, the excesses of prog rock.
