Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 10.16.16

AJBlogs Posted: October 16, 2016 11:00 am

Four Trends In Understanding Audience: Measurement, Streaming and Politics This Week: Is there a correlation between value and attention in the arts?… Data’s in: the plus/minuses of live-streaming… Some ideas from a researcher on measuring aesthetic experience… How might the arts weigh in … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-10-16

People will talk In today’s Wall Street Journal I review an off-Broadway revival of Horton Foote’sThe Roads to Home and the Broadway premiere of Simon Stephens’Heisenberg. Here’s an excerpt. * * * It’s no surprise that … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-10-14

Rejoicing Well, I think it’s thrilling that Bob Dylan won his Nobel prize. One of the most profound artists alive today. Someone who goes very deep in me. dylan-blog And I’m also thrilled because by choosing … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-10-13

Colliding Ideas Tere O’Connor Dance appears at the Joyce Theater in the second week of NY Quadrille. The Joyce Theater reconfigured for the NY Quadrille performances. Photo: Billy Zavelson/courtesy of Richard Kornberg Associates It’s no secret that … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-10-13

Now That Dylan Has Been ‘Nobelized’ … it’s worth recalling this post about poetry, fakery, cultural theft, and stolen identity. … read more
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2016-10-13

Weekend Extra: Clifford Brown
The recent post featuring the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in the 1950s led a couple of Rifftides readers to suggest that we hear more of Brown’s sparkling trumpet playing. He ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-04-19
Not exactly Billary
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review two Broadway openings, Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton and a revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This. Here’s an excerpt. * * * ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-19
Replay: Humphrey Bogart on baseball
Humphrey Bogart endorses major-league baseball in an undated TV commercial filmed and originally telecast in the Fifties: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-19
Almanac: George Orwell on power
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-19
Tracing Bloodlines
The Stephen Petronio Company at Skirball American choreographers in the modern dance world have tended to disavow their heritages as they made new discoveries. In the 1930s, Martha Graham and ... [read more]
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2019-04-18
The Complexity Fetish
Nonprofit Quarterly has a thoughtful overview of complexity and sensemaking as they relate to organizations, the first of a four-part series on the subject. The general idea is that purpose-driven ... [read more]
AJBlog: The Artful ManagerPublished 2019-04-18
Theater tip: go straight to hell
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Hadestown. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Does the Broadway musical have a future? Only if a new generation of ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-18
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) in The Wall Street Journal ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-18
Almanac: Eric Hoffer on power
“The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.” Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-18
To Be Returned? Met’s Own Notre-Dame Sculpture Figures in Museum’s Program on the Cathedral
In yesterday’s post, I had suggested that the Metropolitan Museum could show its support for the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral by returning to it the Head of King David now in ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2019-04-17
The Correct Coltrane Link
A couple of readers have notified us that the link to the album reviewed in yesterday’s John Coltrane post was incorrect. Sorry if you were inconvenienced. This is the correct ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-04-17
Snapshot: Blossom Dearie sings Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie sings and plays “I Like You, You’re Nice” on an episode of Parkinson, originally telecast by the BBC in 1972. The music is by Dearie, the lyrics by ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-17
Almanac: Samuel R. Delany on power
“What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.” Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-17
More joy
I talked in my last post about Steven Isserlis making a concert joyful, because he felt joy himself. Two nights after I heard him, on March 8, went to the ... [read more]
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2019-04-16
My friend Harry
Harry Jenks, for many years the ballpark organist for the Kansas City Royals, died in 1980. He was already mostly forgotten by then, and scarcely anyone recognized his name when ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-16
Lookback: on fact-checking a biography at the last minute
From 2009: A good biographer will do just about anything to comb snippets of apocrypha out of his book. Fortunately, Louis Armstrong almost always told the truth about himself, ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-16
Propwatch: the poppet in The Crucible
Last night, as a cat nestled in the crook of my arm and its paws rasped happily over my fingers, I thought: I’m just a step away from a 17th-century ... [read more]
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2019-04-16
Coltrane ’58
John Coltrane, Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) Every few years, curators of the great saxophonist John Coltrane’s extensive body of recordings come up with yet another retrospective of his ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-04-15
Notre-Dame in Flames: What Happened, What’s Next
“We will rebuild it,” vowed French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday, after people around the world collectively gasped at the horrific sight of Notre-Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames. The sickening collapse ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2019-04-15
Yeast Never Dies
Yeast isn’t a food or an ingredient, except in tiny ways. It plays on food, like a conductor, or a cook. So when you realize that yeast floats in ... [read more]
AJBlog: Out TherePublished 2019-04-15