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In the early days of orchestras, the conductor was primarily responsible for beating time. This was done by stamping one's foot on the floor or pounding a stick or cane. As you may recall, this tradition faded after [Jean-Baptiste] Lully stabbed himself in the foot and died from the subsequent infection. Gluck and Mozart conducted with their hands, often while seated at the harpsichord.

—Plotkin, Fred. Opera 101.

“It would be too pat to say that the fullest use of our senses is the secret to happiness, But any behavior that can contribute to our becoming more fully human and insightful is to be prized. That, to me, is pleasure activism." - Fred Plotkin

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Sip, savor, and get the most out of every bite with Rick Steves! With this fun and practical guide to eating well in Italy, you?ll:Indulge in the best of Italy?s cuisine, from tantalizing antipasti and saucy pastas to luxurious gelatoGet a taste of the coffee culture and vibrant wine sceneDiscover what to eat where with food and wine specialties from the country?s 20 regionsFind lists of Rick's favorite restaurants in every regionFollow Rick?s tips?to find restaurants for any budget, smartly navigate the menu, and decipher the checkHurdle the language barrier with the ultimate Italian food glossaryEnjoy full-color, inspiring photos throughoutCommemorate your culinary adventures with a foldout souvenir poster mapRick Steves and co-author Fred Plotkin have devoted decades to traveling through Italy. In this book, they pass along those lessons to you.?Appreciate good food the way Italians do with Rick Steves Italy for Food Lovers.

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Operavore: Why do I sing?

Whether you are an opera singer, professional singer of some other kind, or perhaps are in a chorus or only a shower singer, we all experience a physical and emotional surge when we sing. Yet we don’t always pause to reflect on this.

In April I attended one of Joyce DiDonato’s wonderful master classes at the Weill Education Center of Carnegie Hall. I had been thinking about the question of “Why do I sing?” when I read the program and discovered that DiDonato had asked each applicant to write a brief essay on that very topic as part of their application process.  

Soprano Alexandra Nowakowski wrote, in part, “I sing for my mom. Thirty years ago, my parents came to America with $30 in their pockets. … My mom had nothing but hope when she came to America. She passed that hope along to me when I decided to pursue singing, and for that I will owe her my career.”

Tenor Aaron Crouch wrote, “My favorite thing about being a singer is being a communicator. I truly believe that music is the universal language. My goal is to always have some sort of effectiveness through my singing — whether that comes in the form of tears, laughter, or simply a smile. It’s not about the high notes or the fast notes. It’s about being vulnerable and having something to say to people. That is why I sing.”

American soprano Madelyn Renée, who has been based in Italy for many years, told me, “Singing is a transformative experience in that it unites the physical, emotional, and spiritual part of us. As our most important means of communication, our voices convey all of our emotions: joy, sorrow, anger, fear, etc. When we sing, we are connected to our respiratory system, and the outpouring of sound is a healthy way to relieve stress and calm the mind and body, engendering a sense of harmony and well-being. As a singer, it is what I love to do best. It brings me back to myself and I always feel like a new person after a good sing! As Ella Fitzgerald always said, ‘The only thing better than singing is more singing!’”

The excellent South African bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana is as eloquent a writer as he is a singer. He is the author of Odyssey of an African Opera Singer, a candid account of having responsibility for a mighty gift (his voice) that has given him joy, but also of the many challenges he has had along the way. In the book and a recent social media post, he spoke of “how writing and singing saved me from depression as they became my free therapeutic tools and sessions.”

What I have come to love is the way people sing together. In fractious, difficult times such as ours, hearing and seeing people achieve harmony through listening to one another is a model we should all try to emulate.

There are some countries in the world that I think of as singing nations. These are often places that have been subjected to repression. Estonia is such a place. Between 1987 and 1991 its people waged what was known as the Singing Revolution, which included acts of defiance that were often incorporated into singing by individuals or crowds of hundreds of thousands. I first visited there in 1979 when it was part of the Soviet Union. I came to know brothers Toomas and Tarmo Urb, who courageously merged voices in their own language at time when that was dangerous.

Estonians still gather to sing songs such as “Tuljak," which gives them an opportunity to share identity and revel in their language, and had been suppressed by the Soviets and other occupiers. To sing in this way, for Estonians, is to breathe as one.

One of my favorite examples of how singing unites people is of male and female firefighters who went from South Africa to Canada to help put out huge fires. They used music to form a remarkable bond of solidarity.

Sometimes music of identity is performed by groups of only one gender. South Africa’s all-male Ladysmith Black Mambazo exemplifies the deepest expression of self and of identity with its singing, whether in unison, harmony, counterpoint, or call and response. The women’s choruses of Bulgaria have achieved a huge worldwide following.

In the United States, singing has a long tradition of resistance and affirmation. Sam Cooke sang in many genres. He is famous for his powerful solo rendition of “A Change is Gonna Come." Cooke began as the lead singer of The Soul Stirrers, a gospel group that harmonized beautifully. They often performed a cappella or with minimal instrumental accompaniment. Listen to them and think about how they use their voices as instruments.

Pete Seeger’s classic song “If I Had a Hammer” was first recorded by The Weavers (with Seeger) in 1949. Peter, Paul and Mary did a famous version in 1963. Sam Cooke sang it solo, and soulfully, in 1964.

Each version of this song is deeply moving and emotional for different reasons. The lyrics are eloquent in their simplicity, but also for the power they wield. The melody, too, is simple and sweet, but it accommodates the words and allows each person who sings it (and hears it) to feel a special glow. It is the magic of this song that makes one feel happy and connected to others when singing it.

As I was completing this article, I happened to attend a new work, Octet, by Dave Malloy at Signature Theater, described as a chamber choir musical. Eight superb performers, with voices ranging from soprano to bass, play participants in a support group for people who have difficulty coping with the impact of communications technology in the 21st Century. So beautiful is the music and so sublime were their a cappella performances that I almost found the words pedestrian and intrusive, even though they were meaningful.

One of the simplest and most eloquent expressions of why we sing was also one of the first I encountered, in the film version of Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding, in which Ethel Waters consoles two distraught children by singing the gospel song “His Eye is on the Sparrow.” You might wish to watch the whole video, which includes the scene leading up to the song, which starts at 6:40. The words and music say it all: “I sing because I’m happy. I sing because I’m free.”

MARÉ DE AGOSTO> MATEUS MORBECK

Em agosto de 2019 um vazamento do que parecia ser petróleo cru atingiu cerca de 2 mil km das regiões Nordeste e Sudeste da Costa brasileira, uma das maiores tragédias ambientais do país. Segundo especialistas, o derrame teria acontecido em julho, a partir de um navio de bandeira grega. Investigações da Petrobras sobre o tipo de material (uma mistura de óleos específicos) levaram à Venezuela como fonte, mas a responsabilidade do capitão e dos armadores proprietários ou aqueles que o fretaram até agora não é conhecida. Em agosto de 2020, a Marinha do Brasil não encontrou culpados para  enquadrá-los na Lei de Crimes Ambientais.

  Maré de Agosto (Editora Origem, 2021) é o primeiro livro - mas não uma publicação de principiante - do soteropolitano Mateus Morbeck, que traz diferentes visões para expressar o que sentiu sobre esta tragédia. Uma delas é seu  ensaio “Noves Fora” estruturado em imagens abstratas formadas pelas manchas do óleo na água e areia de praias de diferentes estados como Bahia, Piauí, Pernambuco, Maranhão, Ceará, Sergipe, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte e Alagoas.  Imagens que procuram refletir sobre a tragédia causada não apenas pelo óleo, mas pelo descaso e omissão, antes, durante e depois do desastre, dizem seus editores.

A ideia de se manifestar artisticamente sobre uma tragédia, seja ela natural ou provocada por humanos, é recorrente no amplo escopo da fotografia e da arte, tanto quanto no posicionamento documental de diferentes autores. Caso por exemplo do canadense radicado nos Estados Unidos Robert Polidori, com seus livros sobre o furacão Katrina que devastou New Orleans em 2005, ou mais antigo, de 1983, sobre o acidente devastador da usina nuclear Chernobyl, ao norte da Ucrânia Soviética, com seu impactante livro Zones of Exclusion Pripyat and Chernobyl (Steidl, 2001) [ leia aqui review sobre este livro em https://blogdojuanesteves.tumblr.com/post/120624295801/zones-of-exclusion-pripyat-and-chernobyl-robert ].

 Polidori passou a abordar estas temáticas a partir de imagens que fez em alguns apartamentos depredados em Nova York, cidade onde mora. Ele conta que quando começou a entrar nos lugares e fotografar ficou convencido de que havia algo intrinsecamente histórico e psíquico sobre o assunto que deveria ser capturado. "Após reflexão posterior, passei a considerar as implicações da cena como evocativas da condição humana em geral." disse ele em  entrevista ao jornal  inglês The Independent. Da mesma forma, ele comenta que seu trabalho tem sido frequentemente criticado por falta de integridade: "porque transgride os princípios éticos ao considerar situações trágicas ou violentas artificialmente "belas". Essa "estetização" é considerada conceitualmente perturbadora, pois, alguns argumentam, ela leva o espectador a uma experiência pela qual as realidades e suas causas são, em última análise, banalizadas e mal representadas." Algo a ser pensado.

Mateus Morbeck partiu da data do aparecimento da primeira mancha de óleo em cada estado e suas coordenadas geográficas. Em outra parte do livro, “Guardiões”, estão retratos dos voluntários que ajudaram na limpeza das praias. E, no ensaio “116”, o autor utiliza uma única técnica: “óleo sobre papel”, literalmente, ressignificando a tragédia. “Maré de Agosto” é um livro híbrido, que traz tanto seus trabalhos mais artísticos e autorais, como sua produção documental, mas que tem apenas um objetivo: não nos deixar esquecer do maior desastre ambiental em extensão que se tem notícia no Brasil. Sua forte e contundente palette nos impulsiona a esta preservação da memória mais recente,

 Morbeck teve seu primeiro contato com a fotografia em 2009, mas foi em 2017 que se deparou com a fotografia artística e, desde então, vem se dedicando à prática e ao estudo das artes visuais. Em seu trabalho, "O autor busca pelo desdobramento da imagem em camadas de significado e percepção, oferecendo diversas possibilidades de interpretação ao observador. " argumentam seus editores. Já seu trabalho jornalístico e documental foi publicado em grandes veículos da imprensa brasileira como O Globo e Folha de S. Paulo e jornais estrangeiros como The Guardian, El País, Clarín, Le Monde, BBC entre outros.

Para o jornalista e cineasta baiano Victor Uchôa, que escreve um dos textos do livro, o fotógrafo "revelou cores e texturas de uma tragédia coletiva enfrentada sem descanso pela valentia de alguns''. Na pausa de cada imagem mora o documento que nos condena a todos por um crime que nem ao menos se sabe quem cometeu." Mais ainda, ele lembra que " O Ministério do Meio Ambiente nunca acionou de forma efetiva o Plano Nacional de Contingência para incidentes de Poluição por Óleo (PNC) que foi criado em 2013 e deveria ser colocado em prática justamente em momentos como  o de 2019."

  Em que pese às dúvidas de Robert Polidori, é certo que somos sensibilizados diariamente pela tragédia. Às vezes por estarmos muito perto dela ou em outras, reverberam um eco distante. Essa interação ora acontece metaforicamente ou literalmente como em casos mais íntimos e pessoais. A tragédia, como diz o escritor Fred Plotkin,  faz parte da crueldade humana e é causada por motivações que as maiores obras de arte - incluindo ópera, teatro, cinema, literatura e pintura - nos ajudam a entender de uma maneira que um dogma, ideologia e análise não são capazes. Para ele, o significado e clareza na arte surge do pensamento vai ao encontro do  indizível e insondável. Neste aspecto Maré de Agosto torna-se um livro essencial, na pequena produção brasileira deste gênero.

Os registros de Maré de Agosto também aproximam-se destas produções que extrapolam também as artes mais consagradas, ao entrar na discussão de seu mérito pelo público, como por exemplo no editorial de agosto de 2010, "Água e Óleo" criado pela genial italiana Franca Sozzani (1950-2016), diretora da Vogue Itália e fotografado pelo americano Steven Meisel, após a explosão da plataforma petrolífera Deepwater Horizon, da British Petroleum (BP) no Golfo do México, onde 3,2 milhões de barris de petróleo largaram uma mancha monstruosa que se espalhou rapidamente pelo mar, ao largo de 35 quilômetros. A modelo Kristen McMenamy colocada junto às ondas e às rochas, moribunda, coberta de uma matéria negra tóxica e degradante. As imagens são asfixiantes, dolorosas e perturbadoras.

  Para Mateus Morbeck, "A cada registro de novas praias, manguezais e estuários atingidos, as consequências trágicas dos reiterados maus-tratos ao meio ambiente ressaltam a falta de importância dispensada, oficialmente, às questões ambientais e as desigualdades regionais de hoje." E de fato, como ele mesmo propõe em suas impactantes imagens, ele não mostra apenas registros fotográficos, mas outras novas reflexões sobre a tragédia que assolou o Brasil e vivenciada não só por ele, como por milhões de pessoas nesse período. Vale a sua proposta: " Registro para que não se esqueça, mostro para que se importe."

O livro, que também traz texto de Fábio Gatti, teve o apoio financeiro da Secretaria de Cultura e da Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia pela Lei Aldir Blanc e foi desenvolvido no âmbito do Ativa Atelier Livre. Foi editado pelo fotógrafo e publisher paulista Valdemir Cunha,  projeto gráfico da Editora Origem, edição bilíngue português-inglês, com tratamento de imagem e impressão em papel Eurobulk e Pólen, pela gráfica paulista Ipsis, com realização de Lanussi Pasquali e Ativa Atelier Livre.

 Imagens © Mateus Morbeck   Texto © Juan Esteves

 * nestes tempos bicudos de pandemia e irresponsabilidade política com a saúde e a cultura vamos apoiar artistas, pesquisadores, editoras, gráficas e toda nossa cultura. A contribuição deles é essencial para além da nossa existência e conforto doméstico nesta quarentena *

Acesse aqui o catálogo da editora Origem

https://www.editoraorigem.com.br/

Ten Interesting Italian Novels

1. Nicolò Ammaniti - I’m Not Scared

“In the midst of that sea of golden wheat, nine year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he daren’t tell anyone about it. To come to terms with it he will have to draw strength from his own imagination and sense of humanity. The reader witnesses a dual story: the one that is seen through Michele's eyes, and the tragedy involving the adults of this isolated hamlet. The result is an immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, its atmosphere reminiscent of Tom Sawyer, Stephen King's Stand By Me and Italo Calvino's Italian Fairy Tales.” (GoodReads)

2. Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One 

“Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow and their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiment of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the their relationship.” (Amazon)

3. E.M. Forster - A Room with a View

“Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.” (instantlyitaly)

4. Fred Plotkin - Italy for the Gourmet Traveler 

“Fred Plotkin takes us beyond the traditional tourist experience and lures us to special places, whether in big cities or out-of-the-way villages. Under his discerning eye, we learn about the food, wines, local bakeries, olive oil distilleries, cheeses, markets, restaurants, and best kept secrets of Italy’s culinary world. Lovingly drawn portraits of the people who make world-famous regional specialties, and local history make each village, town, and city come alive.” (Amazon)

5. Erica James - Summer at the Lake 

“It was a wedding invitation that changed everything for Floriana. If she hadn’t been so distracted at the thought of having to witness the one true love of her life get married, she would have seen the car coming and there would have been no need for elderly spinster Esme Silcox and local property developer Adam Strong to rush to her aid. If she hadn’t met them she would never have had the courage to agree to attend Seb’s wedding in Lake Como. For Esme, Lake Como awakens memories of when she stayed at the lake as a 19-year-old girl and fell in love for the first time. So often she’s wondered what happened to the man who stole her heart all those years ago, a man who changed the course of her life.” (Amazon)

6. Peter Robb - Midnight in Sicily 

“Off the southern coast of Italy lies Sicily, home to an ancient culture that with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology has seduced travellers for centuries. But at the heart of the island’s rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: La Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. In an intoxicating mix of crime, travel, and food writing, Peter Robb, a writer who lived in Southern Italy for fourteen years, sets out to understand both the historic roots of the Mafia and its central place in contemporary Italian politics. And whether he’s touting the gustatory strength of Neapolitan espresso, unveiling the Arabic origins of pasta, or unraveling the criminal history of a bandit, Robb seductively brings Sicilian culture to life.” (Amazon)

7. Dante Alighieri – La Divina Commedia 

“Undoubtedly the most important Italian book of all times, La Divina Commedia is one of the masterpieces of world literature. Supposedly written between 1306 and 1321 by Dante Alighieri, the book tells the story of the journey the writer is able to take in the afterlife. Divina Commedia is divided into three parts, called cantiche: l’Inferno, il Purgatorio and il Paradiso (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise). Each cantica is then divided into 33 canti.” (Amazon)

8.Elena Ferrante - The Story of a New Name: The Neapolitan Novels, Book 2 

“The two protagonists are now in their 20s, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.” (Amazon)

9. Carlo Lucarelli – Almost Blue

“The last book I selected is by one of my favorite writers, Carlo Lucarelli, one of the best Italian crime novelists. The book is a noir that tells the story of  Simone, who is blind and spends much of his time listening to radio scanners. By doing so, he hears everything from police radio calls to telephone conversations. There have been a series of murders of students in Bologna, Simone overhears the voice of the murderer and eventually becomes a vital part of the police investigation  –  but because he’s blind he can only identify the murderer by his voice.” (Amazon)

10. Italo Calvino - Italian Folktales

“Each story is accompanied with a note explaining its origin, and you'll be able to trace themes; for example, many of the Venetian tales feature water and extravagant court scenes, while the tales from southern Italy often reveal influences from Greek mythology. You might also be able to spot the origins of certain Italian proverbs or sayings.” (Amazon)

The Food Culture of Michelangelo

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Goldman Sachs' new managing-director list is out — and it's the largest class in the firm's history (GS)

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Goldman Sachs announced its largest-ever class of managing directors.

Of the 509 promoted, 44% are millennials.

The firm announces managing-director promotions every two years.

It's one of the most coveted positions on Wall Street, a step below partner at the premier investment bank.

Goldman Sachs just announced a new class of 509 managing directors — the largest class in the firm's history.

The position is one of the most coveted on Wall Street, one step below partner at the prestigious investment-banking firm. The firm now has 2,148 managing directors, making up 7.1% of the company's workforce.

It's also one of the youngest classes the bank has promoted — 44% are millennials, up from 30% in 2015.

Other headline stats about the class:

66% started their careers as analysts or associates at Goldman Sachs.

24% of the class is women, down from 25% in 2015.

130 were promoted in the securities division, up from 102 in 2015.

101 were promoted in investment banking, up from 97 in 2015.

52 were promoted in technology, up from 38 in 2015.

Eight were promoted in consumer and commercial banking — the division that houses the bank's online-lending business, Marcus — compared with zero in 2015.

Here's the full statement:

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has selected a new class of Managing Directors, effective from January 1, 2018, the start of the firm's next fiscal year.

"Our new Managing Directors have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our people, clients and culture during their tenures at the firm, and we wish them continued success as they take this important next step in their careers," said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.

The following individuals have been promoted to Managing Director:

Gregg Abramson Sanjay Acharya Khalid Albdah Amal Alibair Karthikeyan Anbalagan Rolf Andersson Volker Anger Jonathan Armstrong Ken Ashley Lavanya Ashok Sebastian Ayton Jonathan Babkow Julio Badi Amitayush Bahri Soren Balzer Robert Barlick Jr. Philip Barreca Santiago Bau David Bauer Oksana Beard Lee Becker Virender Bedi Stuart Beer Christian Beerli Amanda Beisel Yumiko Bekku David Bell Pierre Benichou Andrew Benito Marco Bensi Laura Benson Stephen Bergin Daniel Berglund Greg Berry Shital Bhatt Dipanjan Bhattacharjee Anu Bhavnani Carissa Biggie Vineet Birman Daniel Bitel Anne Black Richard Blore Emmanuel Bodenstein Timothy Braude Sean Brenan Hugh Briscoe Nathaniel Bristol Leo Brito Troy Broderick Levee Brooks Eric Brothers Robert Bruns III Anthony Bunnell Meg Burke Susan Burt Sean Butkus Russell Byrne Edward Byun Adam Cahill Alessandro Calace Cristiano Camargo Ken Cawley Swapan Chaddha Patrick Chamberlain Richard Chambers Daphne Chan Lily Chan Ben Chance Ginger Chang Vikram Chavali Alex Cheek Jae Joon Choi Ken Choi Paul Choi David Clark Denis Cleary Daniel Cleland-James Ayanna Clunis Pamela Codo-Lotti Jesse Cohen Paul Coles Simon Coombes Jenny Cosco Philip Coureau Nathan Cowen Matthew Cox (Securities) Shaun Cullinan Christine D'Agostino Emile Daher Hiren Dasani Russell Day Pierre De Belen Merche del Valle Caitlin DeSantis Jack Devaney Thomas Devos Mats Dewitte Hristo Dimitrov Tim Dinsdale Isabella Disler Christian Ditullio Terence Doherty Yakut Donat Nicola Dondi Brian Dong Jason D'Silva Stefan Duffner Jane Dunlevie Marie Duval Julien Dyon Rohini Eapen Zach Eckler Sayaka Eda Jason Eisenstadt Chris Emmerson Tiffany Eng Chendan Esvaran Erkko Etula Liz Ewing Michael Fargher Matteo Farina Leigh Farris Sarah Faulkner Tom Favia Brett Feldman Jennifer Feng Jon Ferguson Alex Field Herbert Filho Alex Finston Dean Flanagan Greg Flynn Trip Foley Andrew Ho Kwon Fong Moran Forman Michael Fox Caroline Fraser Daniel Freckleton Tim Freeman Reto Frei Giles French Kirsten Frivold 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Plotblog - Papa Plotkin in Uganda

I didn't quite believe that my dad was coming to Uganda until I physically saw his wee bald head appear at Entebbe airport. It was his first time in Africa and he hasn’t been on a holiday for about 15 years, both he and I were very excited. As I spotted him through the glass at arrivals, I waved frantically. Of course, he didn't see me (classic dad) and made the logical decision to walk the wrong way, back into the airport. Not the best start.

 Dad’s introduction to Kampala life would be to travel back to our flat via the unfinished motorway (which everyone uses despite being it being unfinished!). It was midnight, there were no lights and then the road suddenly ended and we swerved onto the WRONG SIDE OF THE MOTORWAY. Dad clinged for dear life and I just told him the best advice i could muster..close your eyes.

 The next morning, I put him on a SafeBoda (a motorbike which gives you a helmet and say they are safer) as he clung on for dear life for the second time in 12 hours. We arrived at the post office where we were meeting our guide for our walking tour, Zulaika. As Zulaika took us through the chaotic centre of Kampala, Nakasero market - an incredible fruit and vegetable market - and Oweno market - the biggest market in East Africa, where you can literally find anything you want to buy, including second hand books piled from floor to ceiling with a gap just big enough for the old lady sleeping in it -  dad got a great taste for Kampala.

 The next day we got up early, ready to start our trip to the East of Uganda. We were picked up by Fred. Over the next 9 days we would discover that we had found in Fred the slowest, nebbiest  driver in Kampala. He also played Jesus music on full volume in the massive 4x4. Travelling by car was a real luxury compared to our usual mode of transport - a stinky, old, squished minibus. During the trip, Dad, Jeremy and I caught ourselves joyfully singing along to the Jesus music, which to be fair was very melodious, but not something you’d expect 3 Jews to be doing.

 Our first stop was Sipi falls, where we went on a beautiful walk through the fields full of banana trees, yams and coffee plantations, to the sounds of free ranging chicken clucking away and children shouting “Muzungu” at us, to the 3 levels of the Sipi waterfall.  To the amusement of a large group of Ugandan 7th Day Adventists, Jeremy stripped down to his pants and jumped into the freezing cold pool of water. Dad and I took the time to look at the spectacular view from the waterfall (Jeremy wants me to clarify that I do not mean his body), while listening to Jeremy scream like a little girl.

 A lot of the world’s Arabica coffee comes from the Sipi region which had come there from Ethiopia, after the beans were sniffed and identified as coffee by a Saudi Arabian, ergo the name Arabica coffee. This is what we were told by the owner of a coffee plantation there, during our coffee tour which also involved us planting, picking, deshelling, roasting and grinding coffee beans.

 After 3 nights in Sipi, we drove to Jinja which both Jeremy and I had been told is THE place to go when you visit Uganda as it is where you can do extreme white water rafting on the source of the Nile. Naturally this was what I wanted to do with my 60+ year old father. Unfortunately Jeremy and Dad’s stomachs had other ideas. The night we arrived, Jeremy had explosive diarrhoea and vomiting all night and had to spend the night on the floor of the cold bathroom block of the campsite which he has asked me to stress was as completely miserable as it sounds. Unbeknownst to me Dad had been simultaneously projectile vomiting outside his tent. So the next day when I had already rebooked to go rafting the following day, I went to speak to Dad and despite having vommed everywhere a few hours earlier, he was in his swimmers and glasses elastic banned to his head, saying that he would still go rafting down the nile anyway. What a trooper.

 Thankfully, Jeremy and Dad felt well enough to go rafting the following day. It is hard to put into words just how incredibly fun the rafting was. Heading towards what felt like 10 foot waves above us and several mini waterfalls after that, with our guide Juma shouting for us to “PADDLE LEFT, PADDLE RIGHT, DUCK!!!!!” as the wave flowed over us, toppling us all into the water, was equally terrifying and amazing fun. Of course, as neb no1, I held my nose as I went under, only to pop up again with my helmet over my whole face so I couldn’t see a thing and all i could hear was Dad roaring with laughter. 7 waves later, we finished the rafting and the day ended with a Ugandan BBQ.

 Our next stop was Murchison Falls national park in the North. After a 8 hour drive to the park in the sweltering 40 Degree heat, and during which Fred got lost, we arrived at the top of Murchison Falls. It is supposedly “the most powerful waterfall in the world” and although I tend not to trust slogans on the back of peoples’ T-shirts, it certainly could be. It was very impressive.

 We spent our first night in the park camping and then headed for an early morning game drive, Dad’s first ever safari! Our guide, Vivian, was a ferocious woman who, to our absolute pleasure, shouted at Fred to drive faster (something we had wanted to do for a week) or slower according to when we saw an animal or needed to get to the next spot to see one. I don’t think a woman has ever spoken to him like that before and I loved it. We saw giraffes, buffalo, buck, lions, a leopard (which is very rare), elephants and warthogs and dad was loving it. For us, it was really nice to see wildlife again and see them with Dad this time but being the Safari snobs we have become, Serengeti still wins hand down.

 After the game drive we did a river safari, going down the nile seeing crocodiles and hippos up very close and personal and getting another great view of Murchison falls from the bottom. After a long day in the sweltering heat, we were massively pleased to find out that the lodge we were staying in that night had a pool. We spent that night chilling in the pool, eating (shit) food and showering in rusty orange water.

 Jeremy and I were also awoken that night by - I kid you not - a bat flying around our room and landing on the mosquito net above my face. The next morning we got up and took our last car journey home to Kampala. Dad got his flight home that evening and although I was sad to see him go, I was very happy that he left behind British chocolate and 2 big blocks of cheddar cheese.  

Fred Plotkin: Here Are The Must-See New Operas Of The Coming Year

There is a remarkable number of new works being commissioned. Some companies, such as Houston Grand Opera and San Francisco Opera, have long traditions of fostering new operas. There are indispensable groups you should know about, foremost among them Beth Morrison Projects and American Opera Projects that exist to create new opera. Visit their websites often.

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Hyperallergic: Hypnotizing Punk Loops and Binary Art in Pittsburgh

Detail of Ryoji Ikeda, “data.matrix” (2016) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic, unless noted)

It seems like every month Pittsburgh gets name-checked on one hot list or another. I’m guilty of having put the city on a list myself once for Condé Nast Traveler. But too often two of the best spots, Wood Street Galleries and the new Cruel Noise Records (formerly Mind Cure) go unmentioned as reasons for the city’s high thermal ranking. Enough of that. When I visited the Iron City in December, I checked in on both places to see what they were offering up. As usual, that was a good plan. Wood Street delivered an old favorite, Ryoji Ikeda, and I’m thrilled to report that Cruel Noise has risen to meet the challenge of the very high bar set by its predecessor.

Wood Street Galleries

While the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Warhol Museum, and the Mattress Factory are the three art institutions in Pittsburgh that garner most of the attention, installation-focused nonprofit Wood Street Galleries has been putting on one killer show after another and getting much less notice for its troubles. In 2006 I was grabbing a breakfast sandwich on my way to the Warhol when I happened upon a Doug and Mike Starn show residing in two floors above the Wood Street light rail station. Let me say that again: I happened upon a Starn Brothers’ show. This is how it works at Wood Street. I almost never check to see who’s on their schedule when I’m going to be in town because I want to allow myself the surprise. While usually not as renowned as the Starns, the international set of artists I’ve seen on exhibit there over the last 10 years have consistently delivered the goods. Last year I was blown away by Hetain Patel’s videos and Nandini Valli Muthiah‘s photographs in the Focus on India show. The gallery has become a must-stop spot every time I’m in the city.

Ryoji Ikeda at Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh.

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Ryoji Ikeda, data.matrix

When I visited in December I was able to catch data.matrix, sound and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda’s second installation for Wood Street. It consisted of the binarily tidy number of 10 television monitors in a row against a wall and some surround-sound speakers. I was disappointed at first, thinking that it was a retrospective with a different project being shown on each monitor. That thought was happily obliterated when suddenly the speakers and all 10 monitors united in a digital chorus of hums and clicks, 0s and 1s. The digits and coordinates on the screens ascend, descend, and spin at speeds not quite out of the reach of human vision. The sounds emanating from the speakers are both brittle and warm, high and low. Ikeda has a way of turning all those flying digits into an overwhelming full-body mesmeric engine. All that data, running through and around us. We know we’re in there. To see it manifested like this is a thrill. We are ones. And zeros too.

Cruel Noise Records

The 7″ wall rack at Cruel Noise Records with Gene Simmons’ head on top

A 10-minute ride from downtown Pittsburgh, Polish Hill’s Cruel Noise Records occupies the same sacred space that once housed Mind Cure, a beloved and expertly stocked record shop, so there was some fear that Cruel Noise might not be able to measure up. I’m happy to say that that fear was entirely unwarranted. The new shop has picked up the old one’s mission with gusto and added a few twists of its own. While Cruel Noise keeps the pressure up with the high quality and wide array of genres that made Mind Cure such a standout, it puts its fist into your wallet with a more hardcore punk focus than Mind Cure. The bins are also filled with metal, noise, jazz, and plenty of generally strange things. The walls are covered with punk classic essentials and new releases that are built to fight, and all this wall action is balanced with evidence of owner John Villegas’ wonderfully unhealthy KISS obsession. Cassettes and records rule the roost (no CDs!), augmented by a tastefully tasteless selection of punk staples like shirts, buttons, and zines. In addition to running the shop and a label of the same name, Villegas DJs an absolutely crucial podcast about his punk and metal faves of the moment. It’s a good place to hear your future music collection. Did I mention that the shop does mail order? Buy or die.

I buyed.

Unknown artist, Crass Loops, Volumes 1 & 2

“What is this?!?!” I hopefully asked Villegas. The spine of the cassette case read “CRASS LOOPS” in the familiar font used by the British punk band Crass. Turns out, it was exactly what it said it was: Some enterprising mad genius made sound loops of short sections of Crass recordings. Crass was an anarcho-punk band and art collective who ruined things between the years of 1977 and 1984, so it’s a pretty fine action to destroy the destroyers. A beat or a riff is repeated, sometimes half a phrase of lyrics. Over and over for 40 minutes it rolls, hypnotizing in its repetitions. Crass was always about boring into and underneath the surface of things, and these tapes do just that in their own way. I was only able to obtain Volumes 1 and 2 that day, but there is a third out there, which, in a slightly Dadaesque turn, is apparently based on Discharge samples. Glory to the d-beat.

Cassette spines for ‘Crass Loops Volumes I & II‘ and Chiller’s ‘Demo 2016‘

Chiller, Demo 2016

Speaking of the d-beat, the other thing I picked up was Demo 2016 by Pittsburgh hardcore band Chiller. Scythe-like guitars lead the way with this Iron City crew. Chiller isn’t afraid of a good melody, but not so much that they ever let that get in the way of a good song. This album is just eight tracks in 10 minutes. Not enough time for fat. Just enough time for destruction.

Brown Angel, Shutout (image via Bandcamp)

Brown Angel, Shutout

Another Pittsburgh band I was happy to see in the bins was the noise-doom-metal unit Brown Angel. Their music sounds like what would happen if you sat on the edge of a pit where piles of bad heroin were being set afire and decided to practice your deep breathing. This new album, Shutout, was mastered by James Plotkin, who keeps the terror and dread as real for the listener as it obviously was for the band when they were recording it. Guitarist Adam MacGregor’s thick rotting slabs of riffs and sinewy leads tear at each other from awkward angles, equal parts Justin Broadrick and Fred Frith. As obtuse as his guitar playing can be, Macgregor’s desperate vocals are frighteningly direct. Mike Rensland’s bass and John Roman’s drums keep all the chaos anchored deep in the most horrific of basements. These are not nice times and this is not nice music. Shutout was one of the best albums of 2016,  partly because it knew what 2017 had in store for us.

These are just two of my under-the-radar faves in Pittsburgh, but trust me when I tell you there are plenty more. Hell, the same building that houses Cruel Noise holds two other gems: On the first floor, there’s the great punk coffee shop Lili Cafe, with killer joe and a simple but tasty menu (get the egg, cheese, and tomato sandwich), and on the floor above Cruel Noise is the utterly bonkers (in both selection and content) Copacetic Comics. Just down the road from that triple-threat of a building is the rock-and-roll dive bar Gooski’s. Back in the city, down the street from Wood Street Galleries is the adventurous art gallery SPACE and the small but mighty cartoon and comics museum Toonseum. Pittsburgh is famous for being at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, but you’ll find the most interesting action in the smaller streams that feed those three rivers.

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