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Chadwick JenkinsAbout Chadwick JenkinsChadwick lives in New York City where he is finishing his dissertation in Musicology at Columbia University. He has given papers on topics ranging from 12th Century lament to Duke Ellington and early radio to the use of Wagner's music in Bugs Bunny cartoons. He has published in scholarly journals on the music of John Cage, Richard Strauss, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He has taught courses on music history, the history of rock, and the history of jazz at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Columbia University. Features DVDsThe Technology of the Occult: Méliès and the Invention of Film[19.Jun.08] :. Like any illusionist, Méliès created wonderment with only the slightest of pretense, creating a filmic language that continues to be explored and exploited today.  FilmIt’s Not Nice, It’s Art![12.Nov.07] :. In the film version of The Threepenny Opera, Pabst managed to accomplish what Brecht could not: a true reconciliation between the satiric jubilance of the original stage play and the politically driven cynicism of Brecht’s revision.  MusicDietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Vocal Lightning Captured in a Fragile Bottle[31.Aug.07] :. Fischer-Dieskau's voice carries us to that primal, first speech, that musical utterance that communicates desire, represents passion, and attempts to eradicate the barriers that separate human beings.  TheaterHenrik Ibsen: The Courage of the Loss of One’s Convictions[17.Aug.07] :. This collection of Ibsen's plays is something of an event -- one that is not likely to be repeated anytime soon -- worthy of our attention and, perhaps, even our gratitude.  FilmSpaghetti War Flicks: World War II Brought to Life, Sort of[18.Jul.07] :. I love Spaghetti Westerns, even the not-so-great ones. I even like the bad dubbing. Visual Arts The Master of Light and ShadowFilm James Cagney: Another Look at Hollywood's Tough GuyFilm An Unnamed ChapterFeatured Article FilmAronofsky: A Shockingly Talented and Aggressive Filmmaker[12.Apr.07] :. Aside from being the early efforts of a shockingly talented and aggressive filmmaker, Requiem for a Dream and Π -- while relating quite different stories -- share an underlying narrative structure and a profound concern for the individual's deeply embedded need for the patterns that inform his/her life. DVDs Lest We Should ForgetCulture The Birth of an Idea: Instant NationColumns Variations on a ThemeThe Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding Stasis[2.Jul.08] :. What happens to the ear when it receives musical sound? Do we hear "our" music as music and the rest as noise?  Variations on a ThemeThe Practicality of the Impossible: John Cage and the Freeman Etudes[2.May.08] :. John Cage replaces the comforting order of the cosmos with the recalcitrant, indecipherable organization of a part of the universe. Each sound, radically set off from the others, demands that we hear it in isolation.  Variations on a ThemeEvery Good Boy Does Fine[21.Feb.08] :. Required to take a music class in high school I signed up for chorus, but the teacher offered me $50 to drop the class – and other ruminations about learning to play the piano.  Variations on a ThemeRestoring Intellectual Day[17.Jan.08] :. It rankles my sensibilities that great music is considered "timeless" and therefore Handel's music still "means" today whatever it was it meant in his own time.  Variations on a ThemeSchroeder's Dilemma: The Christmas Carol, as Lucy Likes It[6.Dec.07] :. The Christmas carol is neither high art nor popular claptrap; it is neither austerely sacred nor tritely popular; it is both timeless and timely, traditional and modern. Variations on a Theme The Bull of Phalaris, or the Ambiguity of Musical ViolenceVariations on a Theme The Sounds of Now: Steve Reich and the Transmogrification of the BanalVariations on a Theme The Profound Consolation: The Use of Bach's Music in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (Part 4)Variations on a Theme On Lexus, Hairapy, and the Scherzo from Beethoven's Ninth (with a nod to Kubrick)Variations on a Theme Classical Radio Communities: Thoughts on MediationVariations on a Theme Why Don't the Planets Speak?: An Inquiry Into Music and LanguageVariations on a Theme The Sounds of Now, Part Three: Anthony Braxton and the Ethics of ImprovisationVariations on a Theme The Profound Consolation: The Use of Bach's Music in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (Part 3)Variations on a Theme The Profound Consolation: The Use of Bach's Music in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (Part 2)Variations on a Theme The Profound Consolation: The Use of Bach's Music in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (Part 1)Variations on a Theme An Overheard Conversation Concerning Musical TasteVariations on a Theme The Sounds of Now, Part Two: Meredith MonkVariations on a Theme Melodic Patriotism: A Look at Some Lesser-Known Pieces for the Fourth of JulyVariations on a Theme The Devil's Music: Franz Liszt's Musical Representation of MephistophelesVariations on a Theme Judging a Bach By Its CoverVariations on a Theme On the Necessity of Listening As ConfrontationVariations on a Theme The Sounds of Now: Brian FerneyhoughVariations on a Theme Stop Playing with Your Ticket: An Investigation of Concert-going PracticesVariations on a Theme Songs Without Words, or So They Say: A Meditation on TitlesVariations on a Theme Out of Proportion: Understanding the Medieval MotetVariations on a Theme A Historicist Manifesto: Why Classical MattersReviews DVDsJean-Luc Godard: 3-Disc Collector's Edition[21.Mar.08] :. For all of pretense surrounding these films and their attempts to grapple with "big ideas", they are, ultimately, experiences that one must live through; they demand viewing and listening. PopMatters Pick BooksIn Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton[7.Mar.08] :. This is a different story of the blues; it is the story of those people (primarily white men and women) who were in search of something that they believed the blues or some other form of secular and "primitive" African-American music communicated in an undiluted manner.  BooksModernism by Peter Gay[1.Feb.08] :. Alas, this entire book amounts to a collection of blurbs on various artists that might easily have been gleaned from program notes, dust jackets, or the brief commentary one reads on museum walls next to paintings.  DVDsGrenadier Guards: Hands Across the Sea [DVD][9.Jan.08] :. Man's utter incapability of peaceful resolution to conflict and the pride we take in our capacity for killing each other – set to universally recognized music.  DVDsSawdust and Tinsel: Criterion Collection[11.Dec.07] :. Couples in this film draw blood in order to feel the human warmth left behind by bruises. Books The Agnostic ReaderDVDs Django Reinhardt: King of Jazz Guitar [DVD]DVDs The House on Skull Mountain / The Mephisto WaltzDVDs VerdiDVDs Harvest of SorrowDVDs England, My EnglandDVDs Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Pacifist, Nazi Resister (2003)DVDs Sam Moore: The Original Soul Man [DVD]DVDs Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2005)DVDs Seinfeld - Season 7Books Divas and Scholars by Philip GossettDVDs The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete Third SeasonDVDs Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 5 & 6DVDs The Kids in the Hall: Complete Season 4 |
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