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"Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, 'By jove! I'm being humble,' and almost immediately pride"pride at his own humi…
"Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation…
Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic perform the first movement of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony in concert in 1978:
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"If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before th…
From 2010:
I watched Napoleon Dynamite last night for the first time since its original release, and was pleased to see that it holds up exceptionally well….
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed,…
Fred Allen and Oscar Levant star in "The Ransom of Red Chief," a 1952 dramatization of O. Henry's short story that was released as part of an anthology film called O. Henry's Full House.T…
"Very often when an actor forgets his lines, it is because a voice inside his brain has whispered to him, 'Wouldn't it be dreadful if you forgot the lines?' And that voice has generally ente…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a webcast of the Lincoln Center Theater premiere of Dominique Morriseau's Pipeline. Here's an excerpt.
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The Art Farmer Quartet, with Farmer on flugelhorn, Jim Hall on guitar, Steve Swallow on bass, and Walter Perkins on drums, plays "My Kinda Love" on a 1964 episode of Ralph Gleason's Jazz …
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
Continue reading Almanac: Pope on envy at About Last Night.
In this week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I write about the likely effects of social distancing on the arts in America. Here's an excerpt.
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; …
Glenn Gould: Off the Record, a 1959 CBC documentary about the pianist's life in his lakeside cottage:
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"Few there are who can truly rejoice in their neighbor's good fortune. In most, envy and malice taint the spirit."
Aeschylus, Agamemnon (trans. David R. Slavitt)
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Working closely with the faculty Co-Founding Directors, the Managing Director will provide strategic direction and administrative management for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Pol…
As one of the oldest museums in Pennsylvania, the Everhart Museum is a vibrant interdisciplinary museum with significant collections in American folk art and wide-ranging specimens of natura…
There's still plenty of money to be made in art, or writing, or music. It's just not being made by the creators. Increasingly, their quest for personal artistic fulfillment is part of someon…
With an average enrollment of 125 students, Hunter's art department is one of the largest in the US. The college assistants are usually given one-year contracts, with benefits, and they are …
Believed to be the first woman to play tuba in a fully professional orchestra in the U.S., she was hired by the Boston Pops in 1955, after her second time at Tanglewood, and went on to hold …
With fundraising for the Colburn School project stalled, Frank Gehry released to The Times images of his concert hall models for the first time. As the architect's design demonstrates, the t…
"A Hindu rights activist based in Nevada is accusing the Houston Ballet of cultural insensitivity and is urging it to cancel its upcoming performances of La Bayadère, scheduled for February…
In the U.S., current theatrical distribution is about 50/50 between hard drives and satellite delivery, according to Jason Brenek. He believes cloud-based tech offers a more efficient altern…
The tale of the author's cremains, which would likely have amused her as much as irked her, includes appearances by Martin Luther King and the NAACP (to whom she left her estate), Lillian He…
In March of this year, Yi-Wen Jiang posted a comment on the Chinese social media platform WeChat in response to a post by San Francisco Symphony associate principal viola Yun Jie Liu. Jia…
