Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union. Renee Levine-Packer's book This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and.

The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist that is compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American Studies, gay rights, and civil rights. Nemo Hill, Kyle Gann, John Patrick Thomas, Mary Jane Leach, Ryan Dohoney, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, Matthew Mendez, and Luciano Chessa. Lewis, Renée Levine Packer, David Borden, R. Renée Levine Packer and Mary Jane Leach (University of Rochester Press) chapters by George E. The essays in Gay Guerrilla offer context on Eastman's life history and the era's social landscape, commentaries on the composer's personality and talents, and analyses of his music. Review of Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music, ed. These episodes are examples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights. Eastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as recounted in legendary scandals he unleashed, for example, his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, and the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others assault us with his obsessions. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. John Eastman was a little-known but respected conservative lawyer. The following is for subscribers only.Composer-performer Julius Eastman was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. You have 58.94% of this article left to read. At the Bourse de commerce-Collection Pinault in Paris, the links of the building renovated by Tadao Andō with colonial history inspired them. In 2019, at the Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier’s masterpiece, they imagined a performance on the architect.Īt the Gl House, in Connecticut, they evoked the couple formed by the former owners, the architect Philip Johnson and the curator David Whitney. One could not find a better synthesis of the work of Gerard & Kelly, exhibited at the Carré d’Art, in Nîmes, at the beginning of 2023, who have been weaving for a few years, through performances and videos, a reflection on the little-known history of art and its links with architecture. And the whole is a tribute to Julius Eastman (1940-1990), queer Afro-American minimalist composer who died at the age of 50, forgotten by all, and author of the instrumental piece Gay Guerrilla.Ĭonceptual art, drag, clical dancers, avant-garde music, humor and seriousness, politics and futility. To all these are added the American musicians of the Wild Up and AMOC formations. This is '2pm performance 'Gay Guerrilla' by Julius Eastman' by Ingleby Gallery on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people. Since June 29, performances of their performance have been held there, Gay Guerrilla, with a surprising cast: the opera singer Davóne Tines, the performer and finalist of “Drag Race France” Soa de Museas well as dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet, whose stars Guillaume Diop And Germain Louvet. With stars Guillaume Diop and Germain Louvet ” Who knows ? Maybe, at night, people in the street will start dancing? », have fun Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly, born in 19 respectively. These mysterious words glow all night and surprise pers-by, gallery 3 being the only one in the museum to be visible from the street.

On the wall, a neon has been hung, reproducing in red letters an enigmatic sentence: “The Lessing is Miracle” (“erasure is a miracle”). In gallery 3 of Beaubourg, the one overlooking the Stravinsky fountain, the two artists have installed a floor made up of mirrors, pianos, suspended a giant disco ball. It’s because the duo’s Parisian performance is steeped in references to disco. As if artificial intelligence knew its owners. At the end of May, while the American choreographers Gerard & Kelly were detailing their installation and performance cycles at the Center Pompidou, and one of them had just uttered the word “disco”, the computer in their Aubervilliers studio launched a thunderous “yes! ». Gay Guerrilla with Julius Eastman Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicolas Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia, pianos.

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