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Bill Fay: Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution (Eclectic Discs) Review by David Shirley
So begins the gentle but insistent folk ballad, “Tell It Like It Is,” the
centerpiece of British singer/songwriter Bill Fays brilliant second album,
Time of the Last Persecution (Decca, 1971). Like so many Fay compositions,
the song hovers uneasily between serene, back-to-nature quietism and blunt, uncompromising social realism.
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The Fall: Fall Heads Roll Review by Donald Breckenridge
Mark E. Smith–a well-read dockworker and the self-professed psychic son of a
plumber–had his brain lit up by the seemingly endless possibilities of punk’s
first wave and, more important, its American roots in the late-sixties sonic
garage assaults of The Stooges and the demonic blues howls of Captain Beefheart.
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Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, Finally by Richard Kostelanetz
The premiere of Johnny Reinhards realization of Charles Ivess Universe Symphony,
at Alice Tully Hall on June 6, 1996, is still justly remembered as counting among the great concerts of
the 1990’s. It included dozens of “downtown” performers,
including flautist Andrew Bolotowsky, percussionist Slip La Plante, violinist Tom Chiu,
and pianist Joshua Pierce, most of them working out of an appreciation of Reinhard’s effort to produce
Ives’s final, purportedly unfinished piece.
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The Rail congratulates the following winners of 2005 Ippie Awards from the Independent Press Association-N.Y.:
1st Place, Best Story About Immigrant Issues Gabriel Thompson, "When Even the Minimum Wage is a Distant Dream" (December 2004/January 2005)
2nd Place, Best Editorial/Commentary Theodore Hamm, "Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy" (March 2005)
3rd Place, Best Investigative/In-Depth News Story Brian J. Carreira, "No Room at the Inn: Ratner Continues to ’Game’ Officials and the Public" (June 2005)
3rd Place, Best Overall Design: Amelia Hennighausen
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