He serendipitously met Mr. Perlman backstage at a concert that featured Mr. Perlman's students, and with what-the-heck bravado, Mr. Worby e-mailed a proposition.. Teeming audiences also justify the presence of an orchestra less than an hour from Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
ASA has opened a creative and intellectual space to cultivate scholars, and unlike other conferences, where most attendees spend their time at the hotel bar or touring the conference city, the sessions at the ASA are teeming with audience participants.
That song, a combination of heavy metal and talking blues, closed Mr. Church's set, manna for the boisterous audience teeming with cowboy hats and plaids who a few minutes later were chanting, "U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A".
The audience teemed with the well-connected, the thoughtfully dressed, the artistically inclined, the habitually downtown: New York hipsters in the least pejorative sense.
The result is music that's teeming with references, hand-holds that audiences can grab so the music doesn't pass them by.
We also get a more intense view than usual (even by Weegee standards) of the harsh, turbulent world of post-Prohibition New York that was both the subject of, and the audience for, his images, a pressure cooker teeming with immigrants, inequity, crime, tawdriness and possibility.
Determining an audience is especially difficult in New York, a market teeming with options from the art house to the multiplex.
For Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, the ten years beginning with 1935 were teeming with gruesome murders, gangsters, tenement fires, and a leering audience of New Yorkers who poured onto the streets to watch it all go down.
By Suzanne Shaheen January 24 , 2012For Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, the ten years beginning with 1935 were teeming with gruesome murders, gangsters, tenement fires, and a leering audience of New Yorkers who poured onto the streets to watch it all go down.
What to you is a big break is, to this increasingly sophisticated and fickle audience, just one forwarded e-mail message in a teeming inbox, to be refilled again tomorrow with a whole new slate of distractions.
