{"id":1314,"date":"2012-04-29T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2012-04-29T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:17:37","slug":"more-third-stream-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"More &#8216;Third Stream&#8217; in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/29\/magazine\/gabriel-kahane-is-a-one-man-cultural-cuisinart.html\">From today&#8217;s NYTIMES magazine:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCraigslistlieder,\u201d\u00ad as he called it, became a kind of classical-yet-poppy, ironic-yet-musical model. A generation of artists suddenly found the boundaries between genres much more permeable than they used to be \u2014 even if classical audiences seem more impressed by Kahane\u2019s indie \u201ccred\u201d than the pop world has been by his classical achievements.<\/p>\n<p>With little instrumental interludes inserted among the confessional songs, Kahane\u2019s self-titled first album, released in 2008, sometimes tried too hard to blend all his interests: it\u2019s classical, and pop, and theatrical, all in one, and it\u2019s beautiful but exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>These days, if he wants to make a comment about crossing genres, he tends to makes that the explicit subject of the piece, as in \u201cCrane Palimpsest.\u201d \u201cWhere Are the Arms,\u201d his second album, is more purely pop than his first, with a shimmering production that recalls the work of Kahane\u2019s friend and collaborator Sufjan Stevens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I would like to avoid putting these composers in a box (because that&#8217;s exactly what they wouldn&#8217;t like!), surely there&#8217;s enough of a &#8216;thing&#8217; going on here to consider it a discreet movement, different from the post-minimalists they are descended from? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1281\">The reference to &#8216;Third Stream&#8217; comes from this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s NYTIMES magazine:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCraigslistlieder,\u201d\u00ad as he called it, became a kind of classical-yet-poppy, ironic-yet-musical model. A generation of artists suddenly found the boundaries between genres much more permeable than they used to be \u2014 even if classical audiences seem more impressed by Kahane\u2019s indie \u201ccred\u201d than the pop world has been by his classical [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-philosophy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}