No less than movies, music isn't a matter of performance; it's a way of life that gets excerpted and distilled in performance.
They don't get nearly as much press as, say, fellow comedy legend Jack Handey's The Stench of Honolulu, which got excerpted in the New Yorker and reviewed everywhere.
Everyone I know who read Wendy's ended up wanting to get an excerpt from it tattooed on his or body, and I imagine a good number of them will want to do the same with Wenderoth's newest offering.
And so what I think happened here my theory, and there are others who've said the same is that what happened here is that the designer of this got the idea to take excerpts, in a sense, from the Columns of Trajan, or the Column of Marcus Aurelius, and put them in panel format, on this monument.
The conservative daily, Le Figaro, got the excerpts out first, breaking an embargo and, perhaps, hoping to squelch the story.
The band filibustered the songs a bit — "November Rain," with Mr. Rose at the piano, got Pink Floyd and Elton John excerpts as a prelude and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" had extended guitar passages — and guitarists got to show off while Mr. Rose was backstage changing jackets, T-shirts and hats.
The band will be performing selections from its recent release, "Open Up Your Ears and Get Some," and excerpts from "Money," Mr. Pritsker's chamber-hip-hop opera.
Have we got another excerpt here?
She gave us something similar in her 2004 "Time Is the Echo of an Axe Within a Wood," but the piece she is working on now, "Mashup" (we got an excerpt in this concert), looks like a return to the joys of brashness.
We also got an excerpt from Family Life, Akhil Sharma's second novel, which is based on something that actually happened to Sharma's family.
