Laurie Anderson's recent performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will be rebroadcast tonight on NBC. She performed an excerpt of "Another Day in America," off her album Homeland, with her male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot, contributing vocals. Prefix, in a recap of the performance, says: "Anderson’s command of drama is still palpable. Respek!" She speaks about her work with Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art, at New York's 92nd Street Y tonight.
Laurie Anderson's recent performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will be rebroadcast tonight on NBC. She performed an excerpt of "Another Day in America," off her latest Nonesuch release, Homeland, accompanied by Colin Stetson on saxophone and Rob Burger on accordion, with her male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot, contributing vocals. The New York Times, in a feature on Anderson that ran upon the album's release last summer, says the song "suggests creative roads not taken." Prefix, in a recap of the Late Night performance, says: "Anderson’s command of drama is still palpable. Respek!" See for yourself: tune in to NBC tonight at 12:35 AM.
To pick up a copy of the Homeland CD/DVD, head to the Nonesuch Store now, where orders include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the audio at checkout.
Prior to the Late Night rebroadcast, Anderson will be speaking about her work with Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art, at the 92nd Street Y in New York City tonight. For information and tickets, visit 92y.org. In advance of the event, Anderson spoke with New York magazine about her life in the city, which you can read at nymag.com.
The new exhibit at the Barbican Art Gallery in London titled Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s, which opened last week, continues through May 22. The exhibit is the first major presentation to examine the experimental and often daring approaches—from dancing on rooftops to cutting fragments out of abandoned buildings—taken by these three leading figures in the rough-and-ready arts scene developing in downtown Manhattan during the 1970s. For more information, visit barbican.org.
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