Hopscotch photojournal

In this week's issue of The New Yorker I have an article about Hopscotch, the Industry's car-borne multi-composer opera. I'll soon add a few more thoughts on the New Yorker website, alongside a slide show of Angie Smith's photographs of one of the Hopscotch routes. Here are some of my own photos and videos, inevitably of much lower quality. They should, however, give a bit of the flavor of this astonishing event. Having been a music critic for almost twenty-five years, I sometimes find myself thinking that there is nothing new under the sun. Hopscotch put a stop to that.

The daredevil trumpter Jonah Levy, a student of Markus Stockhausen and Marco Blaauw, begins his climb up the ETO Doors tower.

Video of part of Jonah's solo, with Tony Rinaldi answering him from the roof of the National Biscuit Company building. At some performances, the trombone part is taken by Matt Barbier, an L.A. new-music stalwart.

Video of Rebekah Barton going back and forth along an L.A. River access road.

From a rehearsal along the L.A. River, doubling, not implausibly, as the River Styx.

Yuval Sharon repels down the embankment.

A scene under the North Broadway Viaduct.

A scene in Chinatown Central Plaza.

Corinne DeWitt, a student at USC, has been documenting Hopscotch for months, and has gathered materials at Ampersand, a website associated with the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.