I'm told that the indispensable music series at Cooper Union, in NYC's East Village, has no advertising budget, so here is something. The fall schedule includes an evening of John Ashbery settings with Speculum Musicae, Steve Reich & Musicians playing Drumming, Britten's Canticle II together with a lecture on the Abraham / Isaac story, Pomerium singing the lyric-Gothic masses of Ockeghem, and Morton Feldman's minimal-Gothic Patterns in a Chromatic Field. So, this fall you can spend $20 on a ticket and popcorn for some pseudo-artistic Miramax crap, or you can spend it on several of the most fearless works of the last thousand years. How's that for an ad?
