“Ah! Chabrier, I love him as one loves his father! An indulgent father, always happy, pockets full of tasty morsels.” Francis Poulenc, Moi et mes amis
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMFrom 2006: Blizzards mean different things to different people at different times in their lives. To a fifty-year-old drama critic recovering from congestive heart failure who has to make hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“This work, which everyone had been impatiently waiting to hear, sickened me by its pretentious vulgarity. I did not realize that what I felt was merely the reaction of a Latin mind, unabl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMezz Mezzrow is one of those fascinating, exceedingly odd figures in jazz history about whom I could write instructively and at length if I felt so moved. Alas, I don’t, at least not today…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMThe French composer Darius Milhaud makes a rare TV appearance in which he talks about jazz in the Twenties, followed by a performance of his jazz-influenced composition Caramel Mou, Shimmy p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“In 1962 I was asked to talk about myself at an American college. I recalled my parents, who were so understanding, my wife, my son and his children, who have brought me nothing but joy. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review two New York shows, Smart People and the Broadway transfer of The Humans. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMGeorge Hearn sings Stephen Sondheim’s “Epiphany” in the 1982 telecast of the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, directed by Harold Prince and remounted in Los Angeles. Hearn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which ever…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThe Court Theatre’s production of Satchmo at the Waldorf closed on Sunday. Barry Shabaka Henley’s final performance was, by all accounts, a knockout. Meanwhile, the American Conservatory…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:01AM“Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one’s life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues.” Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMAmerican Ballet Theatre performs Dark Elegies, a 1937 ballet by Antony Tudor set to Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. This performance was originally telecast by PBS in 1990: (This is the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector—and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be—ownership is the most…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMFrom 2006: Like most art collectors, I spend an inordinate amount of time fussing over what to put where, and I tend to leave things in place once I decide where they “belong.” It had be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMDuke Ellington talks with Goddard Lieberson about his version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite in a 1960 Columbia Records promotional film: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Men act through self-interest; and if they do things you wouldn’t do, you’d better not assume it’s because you have a nobler character. There are noble and disinterested actions don…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I write about the off-Broadway premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Prodigal Son and a revival of Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play in Cor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMBill Monroe and Doc Watson play “Sally Goodin” at the 1990 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monda…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“In the millionaire Undershaft I have represented a man who has become intellectually and spiritually as well as practically conscious of the irresistible natural truth which we all abhor …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I take a closer look a theatrical controversy in Los Angeles that made national headlines. Here’s an excerpt. * * * You may have hea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.” Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMJascha Heifetz and Emanuel Bay perform Fritz Kreisler’s transcription of “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: (This is the latest in a series of arts-relat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15AM“In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.” Walter Bagehot, “The Waverley Novels”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMI love aphorisms and epigrams, perhaps because I have no gift for coining them. The brilliantly precise concision that allows writers like La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, and Karl Kraus to say b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMFrom 2006: One of Garner’s albums was called The Most Happy Piano, and that sums him up very nicely. As Joseph Epstein wrote of H.L. Mencken, “He achieves his effect through the magical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.” Georges Sime…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMI turned sixty on Saturday. Mrs. T and I didn’t throw a party, though. That might have been fun, but we were staying at Florida’s Biltmore Hotel, which is surely enough of a celebration …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMJimmy Durante sings “September Song” on The Jimmy Durante Show. The song is from the score of Knickerbocker Holiday, by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill. This episode was originally telec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Memory is a great artist, we are told; she selects and rejects and shapes and so on. No doubt. Elderly persons would be utterly intolerable if they remembered everything. Everything, neve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a show in Sarasota, Florida, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s revival of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. I also take no…
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