Lou Reed, John Cale, Warhol's Ghost

Songs for 'Drella performed live, 1989

SONGS FOR 'DRELLA — A FICTION

A musical memoir about Andy Warhol. Words, music and performance by Lou Reed and John Cale. Set design, photography and scenic projections by Jerome Sirlin. Lighting design by Robert Wierzel. Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

There are two breeds of heckler: the moron and the idiot savant. Each had his say at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Wednesday night when Lou Reed and John Cale officially unleashed their series of songs about their former mentor Andy Warhol. (Most of the songs were performed in 1989 as a work-in-progress at St. Ann's Church, also in Brooklyn).

The moron interrupted the proceedings twice, with shouts for "Pale Blue Eyes" and "The Black Angel's Death Song," tunes from the repertoire of the Velvet Underground, the influential rock band sponsored by Warhol and led by Reed and Cale in the 1960s. Although "Songs for 'Drella" — a Warhol nickname — marked the first time in two decades that Reed and Cale worked together, this was …