Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The Paul Taylor Dance Company performs an excerpt from Taylor’s Musical Offering, set to the music of Bach and accompanied by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. This performance was filmed on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“At that moment the realisation hit me—and has never left me since: true Philistines are not people who are incapable of recognising beauty; they recognise it all too well; they detect i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, December 8, 2020
From 2013:
• W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson
• David Cairns, Berlioz….
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Continue reading Lookback: ten books that have stayed with me at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The laugh can’t be the goal, the line after is the goal.”
David Cromer (quoted in The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America, by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois)
Cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, December 7, 2020
“Happy Feet,” a production number from King of Jazz, a 1930 film shot in early Technicolor, directed by John Murray Anderson, and starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. Bing Crosby a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I know what the power of silence is. When I used to play in clubs, everybody was loud; there was a lot of noise. So I would take my mute off the microphone, and I would play something so …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, December 4, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal, I review a webcast by Arkansas’s TheatreSquared of Lauren Gunderson’s The Half-Life of Marie Curie. Here’s an excerpt.
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I’ve been hearing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMTyrone Power appears as a guest on Person to Person, hosted by Edward R. Murrow. This episode was originally telecast live on December 20, 1957, by CBS:
(This is the latest in a series of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“If anyone not a moron has determined to kill your husband, he will be killed. Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.”
Rex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, December 3, 2020
A Terry Teachout Reader, my self-anthology, came out sixteen years ago. I’ve published hundreds of pieces on various subjects since then, and I have no plans to put together a sequel to th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“They are the greatest living masters of the subtlest and kindliest of the arts.”
Rex Stout, Too Many Cooks
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, December 2, 2020
Lenny Bruce appears on The Tonight Show. This episode, which was portrayed on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, was originally telecast by NBC on April 5, 1959:
(This is the latest in a series o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
From 2006:
One of my mother’s most treasured heirlooms is a copy of the second edition of Our Baby’s First Seven Years, the “baby book” in which she set down the particulars of my e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.”
Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, November 30, 2020
I long ago lost count of the number of times that Satchmo at the Waldorf, my one-man-three-character play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced. I do, however, take note whenever I hear o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMJulian Bream talks about and plays Malcolm Arnold’s Guitar Concerto live in 1991, accompanied by Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Whatever the old girl says, do—do it!”
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Continue reading Almanac: Dickens on wifely advice at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, November 27, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review American Players Theatre’s reading of Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People. Here’s an excerpt.
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Lydia R. Diamond’s “Smart People,”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMA scene from NBC’s 1960 telecast of the musical version of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin and adapted and directed for the stage by Jerome Robbins. The song is by Carolyn Leigh and Moose…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Continue reading Almanac: James M. Barrie on death at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, November 26, 2020
Not long after Hilary died, an old friend of mine who is also a psychiatrist said something that stayed with me: “You should try to reach a point where you can see your marriage to her as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“VLADIMIR: Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, November 25, 2020
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance the death scene from Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet version of Romeo and Juliet. The score is by Prokofiev:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
From 2015:
Milwaukee contains five buildings designed by Wright, most of them private residences. More often than not, his houses were commissioned by people who had a fair amount of money t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AM“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.”
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
Continue reading Almanac: Walter Benjamin on happine…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, November 23, 2020
I miss Hilary and, I expect, always will. I gather that’s what happens when you lose a partner in the heartbreakingly unexpected way I did. Just the other day I muttered to myself, “Darl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04AMI’ve written a “Sightings” column for today’s Wall Street Journal about the reason why so few regional theater companies are webcasting their shows. Here’s an excerpt.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMA scene from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
Continue readin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.”
Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
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