Top AJBlogs Posts For The Weekend 01.29.17

AJBlogs Posted: January 29, 2017 1:45 pm

Glittering Athletes
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2017-01-28

eighth blackbird

AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2017-01-27

My new play
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-01-27

Replay: Agnes Moorehead reads Proust on The Hollywood Palace
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-01-27

Almanac: Jacques Maritain on love at first sight
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-01-27

A Big Band Of Canadians

Jim Wilke (pictured above) tells us about the next program on his Jazz Northwest, and where to hear it. Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra (Hersog, front &... [read more]

AJBlog: RiffTides Published: 2020-06-05
Speaking of Translation

"My texts belong to the world / Even when they are forged copies / My translators complain of climbing steps to attics / They complain... [read more]

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published: 2020-06-05
Fill up empty spaces—with music

In this week’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I ask the following question: can summer concerts and other public performances in large outdoor spaces help bolster... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-05
No stage? No problem!

In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the online world premiere of Anno Domino, a new audio-only play by Alan Ayckbourn. Here’s an excerpt. * * *... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-05
Replay: Graham Greene on board the Queen Mary

Jack Mangan interviews Graham Greene about The Third Man on board the S.S. Queen Mary. This clip was originally telecast in 1950 by WJZ-TV as part of Ship’s... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-05
Almanac: Graham Greene on unhappiness

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-05
Genes of Irish Genius in a ‘Blooming Molly Bloom’

A friend writes: A little re-Joyceing in this wee lonesome blooming Molly Malone. You can hear the genes of Irish genius in the DNABC of... [read more]

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published: 2020-06-04
Almanac: Graham Greene on realism

“People don’t like reality,. They don’t like common sense. Until age forces it on them.” Graham Greene, Loser Takes All Continue reading Almanac: Graham Greene on... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-04
The George Floyd Fallout: Art Museums Take a Knee

In a striking departure from their customary reluctance to take strong political stands that would alienate some visitors, art museums around the country, speaking separately... [read more]

AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published: 2020-06-03
For Carl Weissner’s Would-Be 80th

Coming on June 16th: "Death in Marseille," the last words of Arthur Rimbaud as imagined by Carl Weissner. To be published in a limited handmade... [read more]

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published: 2020-06-03
Snapshot: a scene from The Third Man

A scene from The Third Man, written by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles, and directed by Carol Reed: (This is the latest in... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-03
Almanac: Graham Greene on trust

“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” Graham Greene, The Ministry of... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-03
Justice

Essential justice is too important to be subsumed into a discussion of community engagement. But for anyone who truly understands community engagement, the connection is... [read more]

AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published: 2020-06-02
Lookback: the fleetingness of stardom

From 2006: Fame is intense but fleeting in a TV-driven culture, which is one of the many reasons why I love watching the old What’s My... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-02
Almanac: Graham Greene on childhood

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory Continue reading... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-02
GC CUNY Keeps the Conversation Going: LGBTQ Pride Month Conversation with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter

Artist, organizer, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors is the co-author of the best seller "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black... [read more]

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published: 2020-06-02
Great “Gates”: A Tribute to Christo, 84, Who Made Magic in NYC’s Central Park

Our loss yesterday of Christo, the canny conceptual artist with tangible appeal, is a poignant reminder of more innocent times—16 days in early 2005 when... [read more]

AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published: 2020-06-01
Somewhere down the road

Hilary Teachout, my beloved wife and life’s companion, died two months ago this Sunday, and her ashes were returned to me a week and a... [read more]

AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-06-01
The Gershwin Threat/The Gershwin Moment

Paul Rosenfeld, whose writings on American modernist composers were once regarded as insightful and prophetic, detected in George Gershwin the Russian Jew “a weakness of... [read more]

AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published: 2020-05-31
All That Jazz | Lockdown Theatre Club 12

Watch All That Jazz with Lockdown Theatre Club on Tuesday 2 June. All That Jazz is available to rent from Sky (no Sky subscription needed,... [read more]

AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published: 2020-05-30