Friday, October 16, 2020
André Previn and the Pittsburgh Symphony perform a suite from Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho at a 1979 concert:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
"There are two kinds of light"the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."
James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances
Continue reading Almanac: James Thurber on light at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Erle Stanley Gardner and George Sanders appear separately as mystery guests on What's My Line? John Daly is the host and the panel consists of Jim Backus, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
James A. Michener, Space
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2020
From 2003:
As anyone knows who's been in journalism for more than the past 20 minutes or so, fact checking is an increasingly lost art. Time was when many magazines"if not most"rigorously ch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but"I hope"into a better shape."
Charles Dicken…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2020
An excerpt from "Emlyn Williams Plays Charles Dickens," performed in 1987 at the Swansea Festival. Williams reads Dickens' "Captain Murderer."
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up."
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Continue reading Almanac: Dickens on poverty at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2020
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I write about the original 1954 live-TV version of Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men. Here's an excerpt.
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Most people kno…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM[SHARE]Jack Teagarden sings and plays "Basin Street Blues" in a 1958 TV clip. He is introduced by John Cameron Swayze. The band includes Tony Parenti on clarinet, Ruby Braff on trumpet, Marty Napol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself."
John Galsworthy, Justice
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2020
In today's Wall Street Journal"Sightings" column, I write about the effect of the building of Lincoln Center on the Metropolitan Opera and the arts throughout America"and how its influenc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Hilary and I were married thirteen years ago today. Back then I took it for granted that I would outlive her"she still had a life expectancy of two years"but it soon became clear, to my boun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM[SHARE]Jim Ferguson sings "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," accompanying himself on bass:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda, "Poem 20" (trans. W.S. Merwin)
Continue reading Almanac: Pablo Neruda on love at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
From 2005:
I expect a lot out of the books I read, and when they fail to deliver the goods, I toss them aside with a clear conscience and no second thoughts. Life is so very short"and so oft…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2020
Isaac Stern and Alexander Zakin perform Wieniawski's D Major Polonaise on a 1955 episode of The Jack Benny Program:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron, Don Juan
Continue reading Almanac: Lord Byron on hatred at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2020
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a webcast of the 2009 PBS "Great Performances" made-for-TV film of Rupert Goold's modern-dress Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart. Here's an excerpt.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AM[SHARE]A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM[SHARE]Bob Crosby and His Bobcats play "Complainin'," a composition by Jess Stacy, in a 1951 film clip. The band includes Stacy on piano, Matty Matlock on clarinet, Billy Butterfield on trumpet, Ed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"Remember, it's never too late to social climb"but better earlier, I have found."
Whit Stillman, Twitter (September 25, 2020)
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2020
Hilary Teachout, my partner and life's companion, died six months ago today, having undergone a long-awaited double lung transplant that failed. I went straight from her deathbed back into l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."
Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Milton Berle is the guest on an episode of This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards and originally telecast live by NBC on June 6, 1956:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Continue reading Almanac: Jane Austen on feigning affection at About…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2020
From 2004:
Speed reading, if that's what I do, comes naturally to me: I've never taken a course in it. I think I'm glad I read so quickly, but it's like spelling really well or having …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM[SHARE]"The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly."
Matthew Arnold, S…
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