“Though a sense of humor was generally spoken of with approval, and a man was pitied for lacking one, Abner supposed that he must lack one himself. When he saw a sense of humor in action, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMiami City Ballet performs George Balanchine’s Square Dance, choreographed in 1957 to the music of Corelli and Vivaldi. This performance was originally telecast on PBS in 2012: (This is th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Altogether without malice, indeed with the kindliest anxiety, older people often seemed to feel that, just so long as they implied that you were today improved, you would not mind hearing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMBarry Shabaka Henley, the star of the Court Theatre’s upcoming Chicago production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, talks about why he decided to appear in my play: Performances start on Thursday…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMFrom 2006: I’m a childless singleton who spends most of his nights on the town and hasn’t held a nine-to-five job for years. You might mistake me for a wastrel if I didn’t …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“‘When you get to be my age,’ he said, ‘you have a feeling, and the vainest feeling in the world, that you’d give a lot to have known some of the things you know now when you were …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMuhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) describes his upcoming fight with Sonny Liston, accompanied on the piano by Liberace, as seen on a 1964 episode of The Jack Paar Program: (This is t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader—to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMerle Travis sings “Nine Pound Hammer” on TV in 1951: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.” V.S. Pritchett, Midnight Oil
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMDuke Ellington plays “Auld Lang Syne” in 1962:
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“The details of happiness do not stay in the memory, and the rest of the day is a tapestry of sunlight and summer sounds.” Emlyn Williams, George: An Early Autobiography
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMA complete archival multi-camera sound film of the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, starring Mary Martin. The production, directed by Joshua Logan, wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“Racine is the most adult of authors, with a classic simplicity bound to deceive the most precocious student by his look of poverty: to the immature eye, the exquisitely right can look lik…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMFrom 2005: I’m full of good intentions–how could I not be? But this is the most important one of all: I promise not to fall back into my old ways the first time I slip up. Because I will…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Nothing can ever irk again as badly as the boredoms of childhood.” Emlyn Williams, George: An Early Autobiography
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMA year ago this week, Mrs. T and I were headed south to Florida via Amtrak, an experience that we found…well, interesting. Come Wednesday we’ll be flying there, and if all goes well, we …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:45AMOn Sunday I took Mrs. T, who likes science fiction, to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s the first Star Wars film that I’ve seen since 1980. I saw the original Star Wars (which I found …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMGeorge Balanchine’s Ballo della Regina, choreographed in 1978 and danced by Merrill Ashley, Robert Weiss, and New York City Ballet. The score is Verdi’s ballet music for Don Carlos. This…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“Grief stabs in the back, unawares.” Emlyn Williams, George: An Early Autobiography
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMAn excerpt from City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy, my first book, published in 1991. * * * Not long after Thanksgiving, my mother would spend the better part of a Saturday afternoon …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:41AMJordan de Souza and the CBC/McGill Youth Choir perform Benjamin Britten’s “There Is No Rose” (from A Ceremony of Carols), accompanied by Valérie Milot on harp: (This is the latest in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.” Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMLouis Armstrong recites Clement Moore’s “The Night Before Christmas.” This was Armstrong’s last commercial recording. He made it at his home in Queens on February 26, 1971, f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.” Ralp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the new Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Here’s an excerpt. * * * How often should a classic musical be revived on Broadway? In the case o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMDame Myra Hess plays her arrangement of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.” G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMrs. T and I put up Christmas trees last year and the year before that, and both of them meant the world to me. Things have been more than a little bit hectic for both of us in recent months…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:45AMThe so-called Proust Questionnaire circulates in a number of variably authentic versions. I filled out one of them earlier this year, having forgotten that I filled out a different version a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMFrom 2005, ten years ago today: All changed, changed utterly, I told myself, knowing too well that it won’t be so easy as that. Every day I’ll get out of bed and do battle with t…
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