“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.” François de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims, #334 Continue reading Almanac: Rochefoucauld on jealousy at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThe Everly Brothers sing “Wake Up, Little Susie” and “Should We Tell Him” on an episode of The Big Record, hosted by Patti Page, which aired on CBS in 1958: (This is the latest in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMYet he was jealous, though he did not show it,For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. Lord Byron, Don Juan Continue reading Almanac: Byron on jealousy at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review American Shakespeare Center’s webcast of Othello. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Virginia’s American Shakespeare Center was one o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMRudolf and Peter Serkin play Schubert’s G Major March, Op. 52/2, live in 1988: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Nothing is more difficult than talking about music: if it is a prickly business for musicians, it is almost impossible for anyone else—the strongest, subtlest minds go astray.” Camill…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“Memory is, perhaps, selective and authors, even autobiographers, write for effect.” Piers Paul Read, Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography Continue reading Almanac: Piers Paul Read o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMItzhak Perlman plays a movement from Wieniawski’s Second Violin Concerto on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was broadcast on May 10, 1964, when Perlman was nineteen years old: (This i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Continue reading Almanac: Dickens on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFrom 2006: I went to the new Snapple Theater Center Fiftieth and Broadway to see a press preview of the new revival of The Fantasticks. As anyone who knows anything about theater can tell y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“One of the jobs of art is to go to the impossible places that history must avoid.” Steven Spielberg, speech on the 149th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address Continue reading Almanac: …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMSarah Vaughan sings “Just One of Those Things” and “Eternally” on a 1960 episode of Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related vi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“To be able to know and still say nothing often seems to me the most creditable of human accomplishments.” James Gould Cozzens, By Love Possessed Continue reading Almanac: James Gould C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review webcasts of Bucks County Playhouse’s Zoom reading of Dear Liar and a staged performance by Florida Repertory Theatre of Twelfth Night. Here’s an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04AMIn my latest Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I discuss the many film scores that Bernard Herrmann wrote for directors other than Alfred Hitchcock. Here’s an excerpt. * * …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMA new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading. He…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMEddie “Rochester” Anderson appears as the mystery guest on What’s My Line? John Daly is the host and the panelists are Hal Block, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and Dorothy Kilgallen. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Everybody makes fun of virtue, which by now has, as its primary meaning, an affection of prudery practiced by hypocrites and the impotent.” Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain Co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” Co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“Dave Lambert: Audition at RCA,” a 1964 documentary about the jazz singer by D.A. Pennebaker: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this spa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.” H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major Continue reading Alma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFrom 2004: “This is absolutely the only place to live,” I told her. “Nowhere else.” “Oh, I guess it’s all right to visit other places,” she replied. “And you could live som…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.” Charles Lamb (quoted in The Athenaeum, January 4, 1834) Continue reading Almanac:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMJascha Heifetz and Erick Friedman play the finale of Bach’s Two-Violin Concerto, accompanied by Brooks Smith, at an undated master class: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and hist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.” Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devll and the Good Lord Continue reading Almanac: Jean…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the PBS Great Performances telecast of Bartlett Sher’s 2015 Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I, which airs tonight and will subseq…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Ernest Thesiger: Expert Embroiderer,” a 1944 British Pathé newsreel featurette. A noted English stage and screen actor, Thesiger is best remembered for his appearances in Bride of Fra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Continue reading Almanac: Henry Adams on friendship…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?” Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living Continue reading Almanac: Cesare Pav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMCarl Reiner is the guest on This Is Your Life. This episode, hostead by Ralph Edwards, was originally telecast by NBC on March 23, 1960: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourse…
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