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Monday Recommendation: Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington, BigBands Live (Jazz Haus) Watching the Ellington band perform in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, the listener was likely to be struck... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-07-22
Compatible Quotes: Duke Ellington
My attitude is never to be satisfied. Never enough. Never. Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-07-22
Jazz and Classical Musicians vs. Streaming
WE’RE starting to hear a lot from musicians about how music streaming destroys their ability to make a living. So far, it’s been harder to... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-07-22
Timken Mess, Part 3: Hugh Davies Adds Perspective
The Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, as you’ll recall, is a governance mess: trustees have caused Executive Director John Wilson, a professional, to... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-22
Placemaking: It’s About Addressing the Disconnect
This week continues our conversation on creative placemaking where we asked our Creative Community Fellows to talk about creative placemaking and what their role is... [read more]
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-22
Me on the Diane Rehm show
This is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, 7/22. The Diane Rehm Show is a top NPR offering, broadcast from Washington, DC. I’ll be in the studio, talking... [read more]
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-07-21
Save The Corcoran Plaintiffs Receive Standing
Just in: D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Okun has granted standing, aka petition to intervene, to nine of the 19 people who, as part of... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-21
News Flash: Standing Granted for Some Save the Corcoran Members
Happy Guy: Andrew Tulumello, lawyer for Save the Corcoran Now it gets interesting. This just in from Twitter feed of Washington Business Journal‘s Rebecca Cooper:... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-07-21
News Flash: Standing Granted for Some Save the Corcoran Members UPDATED and CORRECTED
Andrew Tulumello, lawyer for Save the Corcoran Now it gets interesting. This just in from Twitter feed of Washington Business Journal‘s Rebecca Cooper: Judge Okun... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-07-21
riley rock index album of the month: Greilsammer’s Scarlatti, Cage
ALBUM OF THE MONTH FRESH LINKS “The South’s too fat to rise again…“ Ground Down to Molasses, Dave Byrne Christgau on Tommy Ramone (1948-2014) music think... [read more]
AJBlog: blog riley | Published 2014-07-21
Julie Rada & Chris Webb: A Conversation
This week we will be featuring conversations with leaders working in communities. Julie Rada is a contemporary performance director using art to create enrichment opportunities for prisoners in Arizona.... [read more]
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-21
Tan Dun’s “Nu Shu: Secret Songs of Women”
Chatting in the executive lounge of Beijing’s Grand Hyatt on the edge of Tiananmen Square, composer and conductor Tan Dun recalls the effect the Philadelphia... [read more]
AJBlog: The Great Flourishing | Published 2014-07-21
Josh Rice & Emilia White: A Conversation
This week we will be featuring conversations with leaders working in communities. Josh Rice and Emilia White are members of our Creative Community Fellows program. Josh is a... [read more]
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-21
Maria, Violetta and Opera Queens
Joyce DiDonato as Maria Stuarda about to lose her head (by Bill Cooper) One of my greatest regrets is that I failed to see... [read more]
AJBlog: Plain English | Published 2014-07-21
Cold Turkey Press Publishes a Portrait of Nelson Algren
This is a byte of self promotion. A byte? Haw. From the jacket blurb: Who could resist a study of a writer that begins, “if... [read more]
AJBlog: Straight|Up | Published 2014-07-21
Nicolle Bennett & Sifiso Maposa: A Conversation
This week we will be featuring conversations with leaders working in communities. Nicolle Bennett, is currently working with an arts education and advocacy organization called Feel the Music! She... [read more]
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-21
Strategic pricing for the arts
I’m pleased to say my book on pricing in the arts has been released – Amazon link here, and Routledge link (including for ordering e-inspection... [read more]
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-07-21
James Garner, R.I.P.
My late mother’s favorite actor, the charming and greatly loved star of Maverick and The Rockford Files, died on Saturday at the magnificent age of... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-21
Tanny
I finally got a chance last week to see Nancy Buirski’s Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, a documentary about the American ballerina that... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-21
Just because: Tanaquil Le Clercq dances Balanchine
Tanaquil Le Clercq, Diana Adams, and New York City Ballet performance an excerpt from the first movement of George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, set to the... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-21
Almanac: Anthony Trollope on hard work
“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-21
Corcoran Cliffhanger: What Will Happen in DC Superior Court Tomorrow?
Corcoran Gallery of ArtPhoto by Lee Rosenbaum At Friday’s D.C. Superior Court hearing on the Corcoran Gallery’s proposed merger with the National Gallery and George... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-07-21
LA To Get Yet Another Contemporary Art Museum
Maybe it got little notice nationally because it’s still just a paper plan, but it looks as if Los Angeles will get another contemporary art... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-21
Weekend Extra: Brownie Speaks
Until recently, admirers of the great trumpeter Clifford Brown heard him speak only a few words on the album The Beginning and the End. Recently,... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-07-20
Trusting Your Material
One of the fascinating things about going through Ives’s manuscripts has been getting a feel for his composing method. I’m not likely to become an... [read more]
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-07-19
Two for the show
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I return to the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival to catch up with its other two summer shows, The... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-18
Trouble for the fat lady
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I discuss the current situation at the Metropolitan Opera—and, more generally, the state of opera in America today.... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-18
Almanac: Anthony Trollope’s rule for success in journalism
“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.” Anthony Trollope, The Way We... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-18
Let’s All Help Save Syria’s Treasures: A Plan
Everyone has been very worried about the state of cultural heritage properties in Syria during this civil war. There have been irregular reports but they... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-18
Summer books: Brad Stone’s ‘The Everything Store’
In the past few months there are few businesses that have come in for such vilification as Amazon.com – including in many of the stories... [read more]
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-07-18
Remembering Artur Bodanzky
Sony’s 25-CD set “Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances” reminds us that when the Metropolitan Opera was a great Wagner house — how times have... [read more]
AJBlog: Unanswered Question | Published 2014-07-18
Will Amazon Crush Publishing?
RECENTLY I’ve written a bit about Amazon and other giant tech companies and how they have begun to crush the world of culture, and the... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-07-17
Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
Essays After a Sonata is in publishable form, and I’ve got six weeks left to think and rewrite, and think and rewrite, and reread other... [read more]
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-07-17
Elaine Stritch, R.I.P.
Elaine Stritch, one of the twentieth century’s finest musical-comedy singers and most difficult human beings, has died at the improbable age of eighty-nine. While Stritchie... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-17

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