As Bachelors Anonymous (1984–1992), Robert Berg and David Hughes probed an ambivalent, tenebrous area of pop music, inventing images of the flesh—its compulsions and its ethers. Through the uneasy seduction of Berg’s melody and Hughes’s lyric, the work succeeds as a synthesis of artistic expression within the popular form. … Continue reading
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Music from John Fleck’s I Got the He-Be-She-Be’s and Other Plays
The third in a series of Bachelors Anonymous releases of music created for the stage: I Got the He-Be-She-Be’s, the award-winning performance by John Fleck; Megan Terry’s Home, Zack’s production of Megan Terry’s Home: or, Future Soap; Suitcase, Zack’s production of the play by Kōbō Abe; and Scheherazade, Rob Berg’s arrangement of a movement from the Rimsky-Korsakov masterwork … Continue readingMusic from John Fleck’s I Got the He-Be-She-Be’s and Other Plays
In a Viennese Vein
In a Viennese Vein is the second in a series of Bachelors Anonymous releases of music created for the stage, the soundtrack for a performance with John Fleck, Lance Loud, Mary Lou Vozza, and the to-be Bachelors, on Halloween 1984 at The Lhasa Club … Continue readingIn a Viennese Vein
Like
Like’s five tracks all were years in the making between, like, 1983 and 2024 … Continue readingLike
Autumn Activities
Bachelors Anonymous news from late 2024: Rudy Perez Retrospective and the Deep Entries compilation LP … Continue readingAutumn Activities
Gentlemen’s Club 1987-2023
Nearly forty years after the Iran-Contra Affair, the Bachelors’ Christmas single still rings true … Continue readingGentlemen’s Club 1987-2023