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Payton At The Portland Festival
Trumpeter Nicholas Payton’s kaleidoscopic talent was on full, and generally satisfying display with his trio at the Newmark Theatre. He frequently accompanied himself with his… ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-26
3 hours ago
Villain for a Day
I had my most fun day at school ever yesterday. The reason will be arcane to explain. As chair of the arts division, I am… ... [read more]
AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-02-26
7 hours ago
Music For the Rich — Only
THE Brits have been more comfortable discussion notions of social/ economic class than we are here in this classless paradise. (Was it Rick Santorum… ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-02-26
7 hours ago
Metropolitan Museum Decries “Catastrophic Destruction” of Mosul Museum’s Collection
Tom Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum, was among those sickened by the videos released today by Islamic State (to which I shall not link)… ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-02-26
12 hours ago
Tweets in search of a context: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mrs. T and I just watched The Grand Budapest Hotel for the second time. When I first saw it last year, I’d read nothing by… ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-26
20 hours ago
So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so)… ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-26
20 hours ago
Almanac: T.S. Eliot on self-importance
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but… ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-26
20 hours ago
Young Lions And An Old Lion
The Portland Jazz Festival is in the final week of its 12-day run, with performances by headliners Julian Lage, Hal Galper, Sheila Jordan, Laurence Hobgood,… ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-26
23 hours ago
“Crucifixion” Conservation: Cleveland Museum’s Time-Ravaged Caravaggio
As CultureGrrl readers may remember, the Cleveland Museum’s great Caravaggio, “The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew,” 1606-1607, was recently used as a bargaining chip by that… ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-02-25
1 day ago
Services For Clark Terry
There will be a funeral Service for Clark Terry next Saturday at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City’s Harlem. The trumpet and flugelhorn… ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-25
1 day ago
In the Heat of the Dance
The Kate Weare Dance Company celebrates its tenth anniversary at New York’s BAM Fisher. Douglas Gillespie and Leslie Kraus in Kate Weare’s Bright Land. Photo:… ... [read more]
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-02-25
1 day ago
Connecting with Communities: A Conversation Template
The root of effective community engagement is a sincere desire, steeped in humility, to be of value. All of the “how’s” proceed from there. The… ... [read more]
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2015-02-25
2 days ago
McBride, Donaldson And Charlap in Portland
In the student competition held in connection with the festival, first-place prizes went to alto saxophonist Joel Steinke and singer Jacob Houser, both from Edmonds-Woodway… ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-25
2 days ago
Sub-interview
Pamela Paul, the editor of the New York Times Book Review, just did an excellent “By the Book” interview with my old friend David Brooks.… ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-25
2 days ago
Tweets in search of a context
The endless-loop Irony Lite of today’s sitcoms wears me out. It’s mostly nothing more than fast talking heavily sauced with needless-to-say-we-all-agree-about-everything attitude. And it’s not&hellip; ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-25
2 days ago
Snapshot: Marni Nixon appears on To Tell the Truth
Marni Nixon, who dubbed the singing voices of Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, and Natalie Wood in the film versions of My Fair Lady, The King&hellip; ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-25
2 days ago
Almanac: Raymond Chandler on the writer’s objective
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.” Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art… ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-25
2 days ago
Elling And Iyer At The PDX Festival
With the theme of the Portland Jazz Festival centered around Frank Sinatra’s 100th birth year, two artists with top billing focused on interpreting songs associated… ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-24
2 days ago
Superstars have always been with us
Paul Krugman takes a look at top earnings amongst musicians, and the ‘superstar’ effect – the idea that the vast share of consumer spending on… ... [read more]
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2015-02-24
2 days ago
Hail to college jazz radio stations like WHPK
Ari Brown, photo by Lauren Deutsch WHPK, Chicago’s Hyde Park-based non-profit jazz-broadcasting community radio station at 88.5 fm, held its annual Black History Month gala last… ... [read more]
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond JazzPublished 2015-02-24
2 days ago
From “Griddle Griswold” to “Twister Griswold”: New Outreach by Cleveland Museum’s Playful ...
The ebullient, always welcoming William Griswold is a ubiquitous presence at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he assumed the directorship in May. After hearing… ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-02-24
3 days ago
The Future of the Arts
OKAY, nobody really knows what’s coming. But a pretty good stab comes in a new book by veteran arts manager Michael M. Kaiser (Alvin… ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-02-24
3 days ago
The quiet fever of Peggy Lee
My Commentary essay for March, which has been posted a few days early, is about Peggy Lee. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Few things… ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-24
3 days ago
Lookback: a visit to Arlington National Cemetery
From 2005: It’s no place for the flippant–Arlington has a way of making the overheard remarks of ironically inclined visitors sound shameful–but it has much… ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-24
3 days ago
Almanac: Joseph Bottum on tastefulness
“Tastefulness is small-mindedness pretending to be art.” Joseph Bottum, Facebook, Dec. 14, 2014 ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-02-24
3 days ago

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