Right now I’m too blissfully tired to do much more than post the news that last night’s premiere of Satchmo at the Waldorf (actually, the first forty-five minutes of Satchmo at the Waldorf, but who’s counting?) was a howling success. As if that weren’t enough to report, my publisher informed me via e-mail this morning that the first three chapters of my Duke Ellington biography, which I sent in a couple of weeks ago, “read like a freight train.” Whee!
I’m (A) very, very happy and (B) taking the rest of the day off. See you tomorrow. Or whenever.
UPDATE: A friend writes: “Shouldn’t they read like the A train?”
Archives for February 2, 2011
TT: Snapshot
This week’s video: Joseph Szigeti plays the first movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
TT: Almanac
“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain