Tuesday, August 18, 2015
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.” Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, August 17, 2015
Salvador Dali talks about himself, his critics, and his work in a 1966 interview originally telecast on the CBC: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I repeat—how can the artist justify himself? The answer is that he cannot, and should stop boring himself with his egocentric need to try. The artist is a lucky dog. That is all there i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, August 14, 2015
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the premiere of Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid in Lenox, Massachusetts, and the Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline in New York’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I report on the night I recently spent in Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin home. Here’s an excerpt. * * * “No man,” sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMI left the following story out of my Wall Street Journal column about spending a night in Frank Lloyd Wright’s home because I suspected that most of my readers wouldn’t have believed it.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMMike Wallace interviews Frank Lloyd Wright on The Mike Wallace Interview, originally telecast by ABC in two parts on September 1 and September 28, 1957: (This is the latest in a series of ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“In Beethoven’s music I sense the master mind, fully conscious of the qualities of heartful soaring imagination that are god-like in a man. The striving for entity, oneness in diversity,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, August 13, 2015
“Oh, you’re going to zap me with penicillin and pesticides. Spare me that and I’ll spare you the bomb and aerosols. But don’t confuse progress with perfectibility.” Tom Stoppard, A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Tom Stoppard describes how he starts to write a play. This is an excerpt from an episode of Theater Talk originally telecast on February 8, 2008: (This is the latest in a series of arts-rela…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“The National Gallery is a monument to irrationality! Every concert hall is a monument to irrationality!—and so is a nicely kept garden, or a lover’s favour, or a home for stray dogs! …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
From 2010: Somebody compared me to a Holocaust denier the other day for having spoken ill of Elie Wiesel. While I wouldn’t dream of dignifying such a remark by responding to it, I was stru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“There is presumably a calendar date—a moment—when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.” Tom Stoppard, Jumpers
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Mrs. T and I returned from our vacation in Maine (which was great, thanks) last Tuesday. We spent a night in Connecticut, drove to New York on Wednesday to see Hamilton, then drove to Lenox …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30AMMiles Davis improvises the musical score to Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, originally released in 1958, while simultaneously watching the film projected in a recording studio.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:15AM“There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00AMFriday, August 7, 2015
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Hamilton and a Maine revival of Nice Work if You Can Get It. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMMort Sahl appears as a guest on Jackpot Bowling, hosted by Milton Berle. This episode was originally telecast in 1960: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I looked at my watch; it was four o’clock, but neither of us was ready to sleep, for in that city there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.” Evelyn Waugh,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, August 6, 2015
“The doctor spoke dispassionately, almost brutally, with the relish men of science sometimes have for limiting themselves to inessentials, for pruning back their work to the point of steri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, August 5, 2015
Orson Welles stars in an excerpt from an abridged performance of King Lear that was originally telecast live on Omnibus on October 18, 1953. The production was directed by Peter Brook. The i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“My work upheld me, for I had chosen to do what I could do well, did better daily, and liked doing.” Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (revised edition of 1959)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
From 2005: (1) The computer is the worst enemy of a workaholic with a chest cold. (2) The iPod is his best friend (especially if he sleeps in a loft). (3) Don’t watch Red Rock West when yo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating.” Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, August 3, 2015
It seems miraculously, even magically appropriate that I should be able to listen to Constant Lambert’s 1937 recording of Peter Warlock’s String Serenade on my iPod, as I did a few weeks…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:30AMHarold Arlen sings and plays a medley of his songs on The Colgate Comedy Hour, assisted by Eddie Cantor, Connie Russell, and Frank Sinatra. This episode was originally telecast on November 2…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15AMFriday, July 31, 2015
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I report from Wisconsin on American Players Theatre’s productions of An Iliad, The Island, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Here’s an excerpt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I reflect on a near-unknown pop record that could have changed the course of the Broadway musical had it been commercially released. H…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMThe Jimi Hendrix Experience is interviewed on the CBC. The other members of the group are Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The interview was conducted by Terry David Mulliga…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“A time comes when you think you cannot bear another thing, but it happens to you, and you can bear it.” Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, July 30, 2015
Mrs. T and I are hitting the road this afternoon for a desperately needed vacation on the coast of Maine. I can’t even begin to tell you how much the two of us need to get away from it all…
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