2,374 stories by "Terry Teachout"
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 Life.…
Dock Boggs plays and sings "Pretty Polly" at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. Before the performance, he talks about making his first phonograph records in New York in 1927: (This is the late…
"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it." E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I review the off-Broadway opening of Soft Power. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Talk about timing: "Soft Power," the new David Henry Hwan…
In the online edition of today's Wall Street Journal, I review an off-Broadway revival of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * "Molly Sweeney,"Â Brian Friel'…
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 Life.…
Shura Cherkassky plays Igor Stravinsky's Circus Polka: For a Young Elephantas an encore at a 1995 recital. This piece was originally commissioned by the Ringling Brothers & Barnum …
"The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with multiple interests instead of one single mission, are certain to…
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 Life.…
"For Socialism did indeed die with the guns of August of 1914 when the Socialist masses rejected proletarian solidarity and enthusiastically embraced nationalism and fratricidal war instead.…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I write about Edith Halpert, whose career as a pioneering gallery owner who specialized in modern American art is memorialized in a new exh…
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 Life.…
Gene Kelly and Sugar Ray Robinson dance a duet in the opening sequence of "Dancing: A Man's Game," an episode of Omnibus hosted by Alistair Cooke and originally telecast by NBC on Decembe…
"You are a senior executive of a big company and you know the first rule: authority and responsibility must be congruent and commensurate to each other. If you don't want authority and shoul…
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 Life.…
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…
"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)
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 Life.…
"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 owned…
"I have no use for principles which demand human sacrifice." Eugenie Schwarzwald (quoted in Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander)
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 Life.…
José 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, a…
"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)
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Were a visitor from another planet to spend a few …
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 Life.…
