If classical music in its traditional forms is scarce at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the series has always had a place for new music of the Downtown persuasion. Its principal offering from that world this summer was a double bill of idiosyncratic violinist-composers on Wednesday evening. Todd Reynolds opened the program, sharing the stage with...
London ''BACK then, people who had plans were idiots,'' Laurie Anderson said. She laughed. We were talking by phone one recent evening about what once appeared to be the end of days for New York City during the early '70s, when SoHo dawned. ''Like New York, we were all broke,'' she reminisced. ''We thought of ourselves as workers, conquering...
The hair was a little grayer, and the chins were a little weaker, but early Saturday afternoon at Japan Society it was like the 1980s again. The performers -- Philip Glass, Hal Willner, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed -- were the same ones you might have found together back then, joined now for the first part of a 13-hour Concert for Japan,...