To me, now, there's nothing better than the randomness of radio, when a documentary or live session sweeps me away, nor of the serendipity of changing stations and hearing the opening bars of a song I'd not heard for years.
Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. $6.50 to $13. "Burning the Future: Coal in America," documentary, question-and-answer session with the film's director, David Novack.
There is also an audio documentary of the 1955 sessions, which captures wry banter between Gould and the engineers, and a few fascinating outtakes.
"The Complete Mermaid Avenue Sessions" (Nonesuch) includes those two albums, along with a third disk of music and a DVD of "Man in the Sand," a documentary about the original sessions.
In 1964, the BBC made a fantastic documentary of the "Götterdämmerung" sessions, revealing not only Nilsson's power but also her lack of pretension; when the producers brought on a live horse during Brünnhilde's ride into the flames, she beamed with joy and kept on singing.
Francamente, a DVD documentary about the recording sessions, is included on the standard edition of the album.
La Trama Circular, a DVD documentary about the recording sessions, is included on the standard edition of the album.
The songs she performed on Monday spanned her latest album "Nueva Era" and her forthcoming "One Takes" EP (released on the influential BBC DJ Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label) and tracks from a documentary, "Havana Cultura Rumba Sessions: La Clave," that screened before the show.
(Dave Kehr) DOC NYC (Friday through Thursday) This annual festival of documentary film returns for another session, sponsored by the IFC Center and New York University.
Morgan Spurlock captured the light and dark spirit of those and others during a morning session of the documentary conference.
