Posted in 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, music, tagged Princeton, Virginia Woolf and music, Woolf and the City on Wednesday 30 September 2009| Leave a Comment »
I’m a bit late with this, but the New York Times published a music review of some Woolfians’ favorite band, Princeton, earlier this month.
The L.A.-based band got conference-goers rocking when it performed cuts from the album “Bloomsbury” at Woolf and the City in June.
If you missed the Times Sept. 11 review, “They’re Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” read it now.
You can also read more about the group’s “Bloomsbury” recordings here.
Posted in 19th Annual Internatinal Conference on Virginia Woolf, music, performance, photography, tagged Princeton, Ryan Muir, Stephen Pelton, Virginia Woolf, Woolf and the City on Tuesday 7 July 2009| Leave a Comment »
It’s been a month since Princeton and the Stephen Pelton Dance Theatre performed together at Woolf and the City, but like the blogger says, “its not like it un-happens after a month.”
A vegan blogger from Brooklyn has posted photos of the event. And while as a conference attendee I object to the accompanying Rumpus description of our group as mostly “wavy-haired, intellectual, modern-day Virginias with silk scarves and thick-rimmed glasses,” I am grateful that the photographer’s crowd shot puts the lie to that characterization.
Take a look. I guarantee you won’t see a single pair of thick-rimmed glasses.
Ryan Muir’s photos are fun, especially the ones of my faves, the cute little Princeton boys. They remind me of the Beatle boys of yesteryear.
But here I am, showing my age, even though I don’t wear thick-rimmed glasses.
Posted in 19th Annual Internatinal Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, music, MySpace, tagged Princeton, Woolf and the City on Wednesday 1 July 2009| Leave a Comment »
Princeton
Get more insight about members of Princeton, the young band that rocked the house with its Bloomsbury tunes at Woolf and the City.
Read the group’s latest interview with the San Diego CityBeat, visit them on MySpace or follow them on Twitter.
Posted in 19th Annual Internatinal Conference on Virginia Woolf, commodification, music, recordings, tagged 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Princeton, Virginia Woolf t-shirt, Woolf and the City on Wednesday 10 June 2009| 2 Comments »
One of the big hits at Woolf and the City was the performance by the West Coast band Princeton, who rocked out on stage Friday evening with all four tunes from their “Bloomsbury” album.
Another big hit was the Virginia Woolf t-shirt the band sold. It featured Virginia looking trés cool behind a pair of metallic-gold-trimmed Ray-Bans.
You, too, can be trés cool. Order a shirt from the band’s MySpace page. Scroll way down. Choose your size — men’s or women’s from small to large — and click on the “Pay Now” link to pay through PayPal.
Tip: The shirts are 100 percent cotton, and the women’s sizes run small. Bump your order up a size.
While you are on their site, you can check out their music.
Posted in 19th Annual Internatinal Conference on Virginia Woolf, performance, recordings, tagged Princeton, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, Woolf and the City on Thursday 14 May 2009| Leave a Comment »
Is Virginia Woolf fun? Most people don’t think of her that way, but she definitely had a fun, playful side.
That side will be center stage when the band Princeton and the Stephen Pelton Dance Theater combine to present “it was this: it was this:”, songs and dance inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, at this year’s 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf.
The performance, June 5 at 8 p.m., is being billed as “Southern California frolic meets Northern California serious in a one-night-only collaboration of song and dance.”
It will be held at Pope Auditorium, 113 W 60th St. on the Fordham University campus in New York City, and tickets are still available.
Princeton will perform all of the songs from their recent album titled “Bloomsbury.” Each song presents a musical portrait of a member of the Bloomsbury group, including Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes.
The band, comprised of twin brothers Jesse and Matt Kivel and Ben Usen, will be joined by eight additional musicians in recreating their frolicsome, exuberant take on the cast of Bloomsbury characters.
The Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, known for known its intimate theatricality and emotional intensity, may be familiar to audiences from previous Woolf conferences.
This year the company will perform several new works, including the premiere of “it was this: it was this:”, a choreographic study of Woolf’s punctuation. Using a single paragraph from To the Lighthouse, the company dances its way from the first word to the last, pausing briefly for every comma, parentheses and semicolon in between. The company also performs a revised version of “The Death of the Moth,” first seen at the Plymouth State Conference in 1997.
The artists will combine forces for the premiere of Lytton/Carrington, a portrait-in-miniature of this original love story.
“What is most interesting to me in this collaboration with Princeton, is how remarkably different our approaches to Woolf are,” Pelton writes.” I suspect that some of this may be attributable to the fact that we are from completely different generations—I am in my mid-forties, they in their early twenties. Their sweet, light-hearted and, at times, irreverent response to the material would have been unthinkable to me twenty years ago when I started to read Woolf and make dances inspired by her.
“Though they are always respectful, their songs embrace the playful spirit in Woolf’s work and in the lives of her colleagues; whereas I have tended to focus my response on the gravity of Woolf’s concerns. This contrast should make for a very fascinating evening in the theater.”
The performance will be part of Woolf and the City, the 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held June 4 to 7 at Fordham.
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