Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“An ambitious man is a man who wants other people to think he is great.” Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev dance the “Black Swan” pas de deux from Swan Lake, choreographed by Marius Petipa and set to the music of Tchaikovsky. This performance, introduce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I don’t care much about pretty words any more. You live with words a long time. Then all at once you are old, and there are the things and the words don’t matter any more.” Robert P…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
Twenty years ago Our Girl in Chicago took me on a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s self-designed home in Oak Park, Illinois. It was the beginning of what was soon to become a full-blown obsess…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PMFrom 2004: To memorize something effectively, you have to expend some interpretive effort on it, and with this effort you wind up in something like a conversation with the text. Grasping at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I saw the little creases in the flesh of her neck, just the tiniest little creases, the little mark left day after day by that absolutely ininitesimal gossamer cord of thuggee which time …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, July 27, 2015
Eddie Edwards and Tony Sbarbaro, the original trombonist and drummer of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, appear as guests on an episode of I’ve Got a Secret originally telecast on CBS on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“Always do it in the daytime, because at night your heart takes over. Take her to lunch, to a very chic place like Le Pavillon or The Colony, where she will see famous people and where it …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMFriday, July 24, 2015
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I report on American Players Theatre’s revival of A Streetcar Named Desire and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival production of The Winter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMFrank Sinatra sings “Witchcraft,” written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, on The Frank Sinatra Show, originally telecast on February 7, 1958. The arrangement is by Nelson Riddle: (This …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.” George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, July 23, 2015
“A painting is above all a product of the artist’s imagination, it ust never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn’t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Ravi Shankar performs on an episode of The Hollywood Palace, originally telecast on September 5, 1967. He is introduced by Bing Crosby: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.” Wallace Stevens, “Imagination as Value”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
From 2005: I’d somehow managed to make it to the age of thirty-nine without losing anyone to whom I was close. Then one day the bolts of lightning started falling all around me. First my b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its conditio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, July 20, 2015
Today I drive from Spring Green, Wisconsin, to Milwaukee, board a plane, fly to LaGuardia Airport, and make my way from there to my apartment in upper Manhattan. On Tuesday I travel from the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMThe New York City Ballet dances George Balanchine’s Agon in 1982. The score is by Igor Stravinsky: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Mon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Criticism is powerless to reach art. Art proceeds itself in a region quite beyond the reach of other expression save itself.” John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, July 17, 2015
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey revival of Ferenc Molnár’s The Guardsman and the Broadway premiere of Amazing Grace. Here’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I write about Edward G. Robinson’s art collection. Here’s an excerpt. * * * What do the moguls of modern-day Hollywood do with the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMCourtesy of Doug Ramsey, Gjon Mili’s Stompin’ for Mili, a short film made in 1954 at a recording session by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, featuring Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Bob Bates …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I finally decided writing was like playing jazz—it can be learned, but not taught.” Paul Desmond (quoted in Marian McPartland, “A Portrait of Desperate Desmond,” Downbeat, Sept. 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, July 16, 2015
“Time, time—that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.” Hector Berlioz, letter to Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein (Aug. 12, 1856)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
A complete performance by the Paris Opera Ballet of Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering, choreographed in 1969 and telecast in 2014. The score consists of piano pieces by Chopin, played …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on it.” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
From 2005: I sometimes wonder whether the rural Missouri town where I grew up is losing its individuality. I turned on the car radio yesterday morning and found myself listening to “Sympat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Taste ripens at the expense of happiness.” Jules Renard, journal entry (January 1908)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, July 13, 2015
When Peggy Crosno Presson, my late mother’s youngest sister, died in March, the members of the Crosno family who made their way to southeast Missouri for her funeral all said the same thin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:25AMThe opening scene of George Schaefer’s TV adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, starring Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager. It was originally telecast by NBC on May 30, 1977: (This i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM 
