Alice Tully Hall
Thanks to Bang on a Can, a noise-rock show sneaks in the back door of Alice Tully Hall tomorrow
Tatsuya Yoshida is the drummer of the long-running Japanese noise-rock duo Ruins. For three decades, his principal band has pounded its gospel of rhythmically complex, quasi-improvised thrash across the globe. (The duo collaborated memorably with British free-improvisational guitar hero Derek Bailey in the late 90s.) But it would take the Asphalt Orchestra—the Bang On A Can house “marching band”—to commission a suite of music by Yoshida to bring into Alice Tully Hall’s Starr Theater. More
Lincoln Center's 'striptease': It's the architecture!
For Lincoln Center, which had long been an island of culture closed off to its surroundings, the renovation to Alice Tully Hull exposed the building to the street so that, as arhitect Charles Renfro said, "going to the theater becomes theater." The vocabulary that both architects kept using replaced Belluschi's masculine muscularity with a more feminine warmth and transparency—"an architectural striptease," as Renfro put it. More
