I put together this montage of artists for the front cover of this cd/dvd package but that's not the treasure here. This is a fabulous collection featuring many of classic Gospel's most important artists.
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The package was produced by Anthony Heilbut. We met through my interest in gospel and his expertise. We've been friends for thirty years. Tony wrote the definitive book on the music and it's also available at Amazon.
NYC and Amherst, Ma A Checkroom Romance Music: Mark Mulcahy
Words and Drawings: Ben Katchor Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 8:30 PM David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 62nd St.
Target Free Thursdays (Free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis with limited capacity. Come early.) In this new musical tragicomedy, one man's casual obsession with the architecture and culture of coat checkrooms ensnares him in a desperate struggle between employment agents, maitre 'd’s, lovesick podiatrists, low-budget contractors, and paraphilic playboys. A Checkroom Romance is the third theater collaboration between cartoonist Ben Katchor (Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, and The Jew of New York) and composer Mark Mulcahy (Miracle Legion), following The Rosenbach Company, andThe Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, and features musicians and singers surrounded by Katchor's projected drawings and animations. Musicians and Singers:
Mark Mulcahy
Dave Trenholm
Ken Maiuri
Flora Reed
Sound design: Dan Richardson A Checkroom Romance was commissioned by The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. For more info: http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/index.php/atrium-check-room-romance-may-6
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A Checkroom Romance
Music: Mark Mulcahy
Words and Drawings: Ben Katchor Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA Musicians and Singers:
Mark Mulcahy
Dave Trenholm
Ken Maiuri
Flora Reed
Sound design: Dan Richardson A Checkroom Romance was commissioned by The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Tickets: $18. For more into and to purchase tickets online:http://support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar/1222696304?view=Detail&id=1541
Originally this was going to be a more elaborate street scene with cars and people but then I decided I liked it just the way it was.
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This was done a while back. It's about 8 feet long and six feet high. I haven't seen it in a while. It hangs in an apartment in Williamsburg. Anyway, the above images seem related to these, at least in my head.
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Here are two more from then. Photos courtesy of Patrick J B Flynn.
These were all selected by Bob Newman and posted on his Facebook page Robert Newman Design. In the spirit of brotherhood and internet sharing I'n reposting them all here. Ain't that very twenty-first century of me? Art Chantry has an amazing and amazingly influential body of work. If I started naming his acolytes I might be typing well into the twenty-second century.
I saved this magazine since 1978 for the following collection of candid snapshots of some great comedians from a bygone era.
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My kids are huge Mischa Auer fans
Actually my kids are fans of or have at least seen the work of most of these guys. I'm giving them a classical education.
At first I thought this might be a pointless post for Drawger but then I realized that this era of film comedy, among a lot of other stuff, has been a huge influence on my work so maybe it's not such a pointless post after all. When I was a kid I read this quote from John Lennon referring to The Beatles and it's stuck with me ever since, "you see we're influenced by whatever's going."
