Things will be far less scary tomorrow at Carnegie Hall, where he will present a family concert based on his 1999 album, "Singin' in the Bathtub," released by Sony Wonder.
Under stone steps, which disappear into the water, 35 pipes continually blow the notes of an unpredictable concert based on the sea's undulations and the ensuing air pressure.
On Nov. 8, Lanterman's musical legacy will be celebrated as Lanterman House and La Cañada Congregational Church present "Pages from the American Songbook," a concert based entirely on works taken from Lanterman's personal sheet music collection and played on the Estey organ he donated to the church in 1925.
He is the curator of the 2007 Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, which next month will feature a program of experimental folk music (including Vashti Bunyan, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Adem, Cibelle and CocoRosie) and a multi-artist concert based on the conceit of a single drone note.
Events included a hip-hop concert based on "Ring" themes called "Gangsta Wagner," a country-and-western parody, exhibits at the city's major museums, a vivid planetarium show to "Ring" music at the Griffith Observatory, concerts, symposiums, lectures and conferences.
A case was brought against him only after newspaper articles recounted the alleged events at the concert, based on a complaint filed by an employee of the state attorney's office who attended the concert.
Last year saw him releasing music made entirely out of the life cycle of a pig (One Pig) and putting on a concert based largely around an edition of the Guardian newspaper (One Day).
The staged concert, based on Mr. Reed's 1973 album of the same name, was taped at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn in December 2006.
Anne Matlack, artistic director of Harmonium for the past 13 years, determines the theme for both the contest and concert based on the primary musical selection she chooses for the spring program.
