Justin Davidson
Classical Music and Architecture Critic at New York Magazine
Classical Music and Architecture Critic at Curbed
Author, Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York: https://t.co/YzskE6ViJ8 | Classical music and architecture critic, @NYMag and @Curbed
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2 weeks ago |
curbed.com | Justin Davidson
The photographer Berenice Abbott hung around the Fulton Fish Market in the mid-1930s, and the pictures she made show a city in mid-metamorphosis. In the foreground of one, men in high rubber boots tromp along a wet pier, some wheeling handcarts. You can practically inhale the mingled odors of brine, fish, and diesel fuel. This is the metropolis of muscle, the place that for four centuries had thrived on hauling, storing, packing, and shipping stuff.
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3 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Justin Davidson
John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra is at the Metropolitan Opera. John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra might be one of the most precisely engineered, solidly constructed, and elegantly executed operas of the past 25 years. For a tragic love story, it’s also mysteriously unmoving.
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1 month ago |
curbed.com | Justin Davidson
Snøhetta’s new Far Rockaway branch of the Queens Public Library. Three curious things will strike you about the building at the intersection of Central Avenue and Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway: It’s an orange-glass box, it’s covered in a pattern of scratchy white swirls, and it parts at the corner like a slit skirt.
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1 month ago |
vulture.com | Justin Davidson
The Takács Quartet at the Frick last night. My new favorite mini concert hall is a chamber-music cellar, slipped two floors beneath the Frick. When the architect Annabelle Selldorf renovated and expanded the museum upstairs, honoring its Beaux-Arts sensibility, she reserved this clubby underground room as an expression of her own. (It’s the Stephen A.
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1 month ago |
vulture.com | Justin Davidson
Seven ages of Salome, now at the Metropolitan Opera. At the end of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the soprano Elza van den Heever stayed onstage to accept the uproarious ovations with a weepy smile and a grateful tap on her heart. That moment of curtain-call niceness came as a shock on opening night, because for the previous two hours she had exuded the kind of casual, carnal evil that zombies would kill for.
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A lot of classical musicians pay lip service to community and underserved audiences. This dude (who was giving private performances for audiences of me when we were college roommates) really does it.
How do you haul a keyboard up a ski lift? Pianist David Feurzeig aims to perform in every town in #Vermont, but booking those gigs isn’t always easy. https://t.co/xgDPaXEiXm
RT @NYMag: Studio V architects has proposed a development plan for a two-block rail cut in Borough Park, Brooklyn: Deck over the freight ra…
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