Mid-Week Libation: Everybody Dance!
Disco at the BBC Proms! Plus poetry & wisdom from Natalie Diaz, The Armory Show 2024, a new R&R playlist and a sumptuous French Viognier!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
R&R’s Latest Playlist: What’s That Sound? (Featuring Bryan Ferry, Miriam Makeba, Sly & The Family Stone, Talking Heads, Angelique Kidjo, Prince & More!)
Happy Birthday to Award-Winning Poet Natalie Diaz! (born September 4, 1978)
Check out her Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection:
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Cave Yves Cuilleron Viognier “Vignes d'à côté” (IGP Collines Rhodaniennes, Rhone, France)
Calling All Art Lovers: The Armory Show 2024 Opens in NYC This Week!
“A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. The fair plays a leading role in the city’s position as an important cultural capital through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations.” [Source]
The fair is open to the public on September 6th and 7th from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on September 8th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Armory Show 2024: Read More and Purchase Tickets (via Artsy)
Have a look at over 2000 works of art available for sale at The Armory Show 2024! (via Artsy)
Our Curators’ Guide to The Armory Show 2024 (via Artsy)
Wanna Dance Around the House to a Classical Orchestra? Have a Listen to “Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco” from the BBC Proms 2024!
“Sound, style and fashion met in the disco movement, and in late 1970s New York there was only one place to experience it: Studio 54. Many of the disco hits that electrified the dance floor at the iconic midtown-Manhattan venue borrowed extensively from orchestral traditions. Here the BBC Concert Orchestra returns the favour, lending its power and exuberance to an evening that celebrates a pivotal movement in late 20th-century club culture and the glorious music it produced. With iconic hits from Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, Boney M. and Walter Murphy, get ready for all the glitz, glamour and groove of disco at the Proms!” [Source]
Listen on BBC Radio 3 (available internationally)
Watch on the BBC iPlayer (U.K. only)
Currently available (this link may be temporary) on Youtube:
“Break out the sequins and channel the spirit of Studio 54 in this rafters-shaking celebration of disco’s heyday at the Royal Albert Hall. Singers Vula Malinga, Elisabeth Troy, Vanessa Haynes and Cedric Neal bring to life all the classic floor-fillers from Chic, Sylvester, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer and many more, while the BBC Concert Orchestra with conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser give the original arrangements extra pizzazz. Andi Oliver presents from the dance floor.” [Source]
Interesting Artists Born Today: September 4th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, Albert Joseph Moore, Daniel Burnham, Gustav Bauernfeind, Eilif Peterssen, Eva Acke, Annie Stebler-Hopf, Frieda Blell, Elsie Dodge Pattee, Gladys Reynell, Béla Czóbel, Florence Carter-Wood, Oskar Schlemmer, Eugeniusz Geppert, George Hoyningen-Huene, Rosa Castillo, Syd Hoff, Alexander Liberman, Kenzō Tange, Rondal Partridge, Anita Snellman, Anne Dunn, Robert Arneson, Jack Boucher, Sandra Eleta and Arpana Caur!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Phoebe Cary, Antonin Artaud, Mary Renault, Richard Wright, Craig Claiborne, Joan Aiken, Marilena de Souza Chaui, Steve Chimombo, Liz Greene, Janet Biehl, Carmen Boullosa, José Luís Peixoto and Natalie Diaz!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Anton Bruckner, Darius Milhaud, Meade Lux Lewis, Gerald Wilson, Ariel Ramírez, John Cephas, Jerry Ragovoy, U.P. Wilson, Michel Sardaby, Merald “Bubba” Knight, Gene Parsons, Dave Liebman, Martin Chambers, Lonnie Plaxico, Kim Thayil, Nick Blinko, Biréli Lagrène, Mark Ronson, Samuel Torres and Beyoncé!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Edward Dmytryk, Bernardino Zapponi, Dick York, Mitzi Gaynor, Jan Švankmajer, Leonard Frey, Jennifer Salt, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Khandi Alexander, Damon Wayans, Fanta Régina Nacro, Ione Skye and Wes Bentley!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978)
