Perfomance
How Art Works: Beatboxing
You may not recognize the lingo, but chances are you’ve heard their guttural rumbling before. Human beatboxers first appeared in the early eighties, when freestyle rappers often relied on them as mobile percussionists. They took their name from the drum machine — or beat box — that DJs used for their pre-programmed rhythm tracks. After […]
Remembering Anthony Minghella
This week the British movie director Anthony Minghella died unexpectedly, at 54. He had a rare talent for making an old-fashioned romantic epic feel smart and fresh — like in his films “The English Patient” and “Cold Mountain.” Kurt spoke with Minghella in 2006 when he was staging a version of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” at […]