Tuesday, June 23, 2020
“Any innocent pleasure is a real good; there are not so many of them.”
Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain
Continue reading Almanac: Patrick O’Brian on pleasure at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, June 22, 2020
Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor dance a medley of songs from their films. This clip is an excerpt from Pontiac Star Parade, a TV special that was originally telecast by NBC on November 21,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Few things are more irritating than to discover, after you have been at great pains to spare a person some painful intelligence, that he has known it all along and is not nearly so mch af…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, June 19, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a webcast version of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2014 production of James Lapine’s Act One. Here’s an excerpt.
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James Lap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:05AMMy latest Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column is about Lennox Berkeley, an English composer whose music is all but unknown in this country and deserves much wider recognition. Here’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMA new episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMNat King Cole appears as the mystery guest on What’s My Line?John Daly is the host and the panelists are Steve Allen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and Dorothy Kilgallen. This episode was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence. The least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
Lord Byron, le…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, June 18, 2020
“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”
Michel de Montalgne, Essays (trans. Donald M. Frame)
Continue reading Almanac: Montaigne on the prope…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, June 17, 2020
Mark Knopfler is interviewed by Michael Parkinson on Parkinson, originally telecast by the BBC in 2000:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog’s-ear place of these pages the warning, ‘Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and disl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, June 16, 2020
From 2010:
As part of our long-term project of staying at all six of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses that can be rented for overnight stays, we launched our vacation by flying to Pittsburgh an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.”
George Saintsbury, A Last Scrap Book
Continu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, June 15, 2020
In order to divert those of you who, like me, are sticking close to home these days, I’ve been posting images of some of the prints and paintings that hang on the walls of the Manhattan ap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMKing Vidor and William Wyler are interviewed about their work as film directors in an undated British telecast from the Fifties:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-relat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat—it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice ‘at the closin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, June 12, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Folger Shakespeare Library’s webcast version of a 2008 revival of Macbeth co-directed by Aaron Posner and Teller. Here’s an excerpt.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMRichard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Bill Fabric perform “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” from the score of South Pacific, in a newsreel clip commemmorating the 1952 Nation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like coo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, June 11, 2020
“‘Perhaps you will join us one day,’ said Mrs. Beltane, in the rather perfunctory tone in which social invitations not meant to be accepted are sometimes issued, and to which the only …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
I’ve written a “Staying Inside Guide” piece for The Wall Street Journal about the novel sequence, highlighting three of my favorite authors who have worked in the genre. Here’s an e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMAndré Watts, Leonard Bernstein, and the New York Philharmonic perform Liszt’s First Piano Concerto as part of a Young People’s Concert featuring young classical performers, originally t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“She liked to think of herself as a straightforward sort of person. ‘People always know where they are with me,’ she would say rather smugly; it never occurred to her that people might…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
From 2010:
I find it hard to grasp that one of the founding members of a performing ensemble that has long been so much a part of my aesthetic life is no longer with us. The good news—if y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“‘I always think one needs a drink at this time,’ he said, as they approached his front door.
“‘A drink?’ said Marian in a surprised tone, and Aylwin realized that they were so m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, June 8, 2020
Jack Mangan interviews Carson McCullers on board the S.S. Queen Mary. This clip was originally telecast in 1951 by WJZ-TV as part of Ship’s Reporter, a TV series in which Mangan intervie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMFor trouble comes to all of us: the rat
Has courage, in adversity, to fight;
But what a shining animal is man,
Who knows, when pain subsides, that is not that,
For worse than that must follo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, June 5, 2020
In this week’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I ask the following question: can summer concerts and other public performances in large outdoor spaces help bolster the flaggin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the online world premiere of Anno Domino, a new audio-only play by Alan Ayckbourn. Here’s an excerpt.
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One by one, drama companies on b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMJack Mangan interviews Graham Greene about The Third Man on board the S.S. Queen Mary. This clip was originally telecast in 1950 by WJZ-TV as part of Ship’s Reporter, a TV series in whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM 
