Tuesday, October 22, 2019
From 2009: Film was the master medium of the twentieth century. Within a few years of its invention, it had supplanted live theater and the novel as the main way in which most people experie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01AM“Don’t ever try to learn from other people’s mistakes. Learn what other people do right.” An unknown first-century rabbi (quoted in Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMMonday, October 21, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Jazz on Stage,” an episode from a 1970 syndicated TV series. This episode was directed by Jack Lewerke and filmed during a performance at Shelly’s Manne-Hole, a Los Angeles night club…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I have no use for principles which demand human sacrifice.” Eugenie Schwarzwald (quoted in Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, October 18, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMJosé Iturbi plays Liszt’s Eleventh Hungarian Rhapsody in a 1940 film: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“No true musician can be satisfied with his performance, even through an audience is driven to a frenzy.” Arturo Toscanini (quoted by Halina Rodzinski in Our Two Lives)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, October 17, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Were a visitor from another planet to spend a few se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMVarious forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Sexton I still read, but Plath I gave up on. For some years I was very enthusiastic about her, but I don’t feel the attraction any more. With poetry, I go where I’m pulled.” Jon Has…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMW.B. Yeats reads “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” This reading was originally recorded by the BBC on October 28, 1936: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMThere’s not a woman turns her face Upon a broken tree, And yet the beauties that I loved Are in my memory; I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me. William Butler Yeats, “T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMFrom 2009: Much has been written in recent days, most of it silly and some of it ignorant, about the modern art that Barack and Michelle Obama have borrowed to display in the White House….…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, October 14, 2019
Clive James recently filled out the Guardian’s “Books That Made Me” questionnaire. I was so struck by his answers—as well as the questions themselves—that I decided to play along: …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMThe thirty-ninth 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 list…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMJanet Baker sings Berlioz’s “Le spectre de la rose” (from Nuits d’été) with Herbert Blomstedt and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1972: (This is the latest in a series of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly.” Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, October 11, 2019
In the online edition of today’s Wall Street Journal, I review Second Stage’s Broadway transfer of the original Chicago production of Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista. Here’s an excerpt. * …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMStéphane Grappelli and George Shearing play “Sweet Georgia Brown” in Stéphane Grappelli and His Quartet. Dave Goldberg is the guitarist, Coleridge Goode the bassist, and Ray Ellington…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.” Anthony Trollope, The Prime M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, October 10, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review an important New York opening, the Irish Repertory Theatre’s off-Broadway revival of Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol. Here’s an excerpt. * *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03AMIn this week’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, which appears in the online edition of today’s paper, I discuss the case of Plácido Domingo. Here’s an excerpt. * * *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02AM“But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?” Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Frederick Ashton rehearses Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in his 1956 ballet Birthday Offering at London’s Covent Garden in 1968. The score is by Glazunov: (This is the latest in a ser…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.” Ant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, October 8, 2019
Due to an unusually large number of Broadway openings this fall, I’m filing two drama columns for The Wall Street Journal this week. In today’s paper, I review the Broadway transfer of S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMA friend of mine sent me this color photograph the other day, remarking that he suspected it was the only time that Louis Armstrong and George Bernard Shaw appeared in the same painting. It …
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