• Home
  • About
    • About Last Night
    • Terry Teachout
    • Contact
  • AJBlogCentral
  • ArtsJournal

About Last Night

Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

You are here: Home / 2007 / May / Archives for 1st

Archives for May 1, 2007

TT: Words to the wise

May 1, 2007 by Terry Teachout

• Mark Morris makes his Metropolitan Opera directing debut tomorrow night with a production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice starring David Daniels, Maija Kovalevska, and Heidi Grant Murphy. James Levine conducts. Only four performances will be given this season, on Wednesday and Saturday afternoon and on May 9 and 12 (the May 12 performance is a matinee). I’ll be there.
To read an interview with Morris and his design team, go here.
For more information, go here.
• “Magical Means: Milton Avery and Watercolor,” a show of forty works on paper, goes up Thursday at Knoedler & Company and will be on view through Aug. 10. The gallery is at 19 E. 70th Street. I haven’t seen the catalogue yet, but I’ll be very surprised if this exhibition doesn’t turn out to be…well, magical.
For more information, go here.
• The Fred Hersch Trio will be performing at the Village Vanguard next Tuesday-Sunday in support of its newly released CD, Night and the Music. The Vanguard is at 178 Seventh Avenue South (like you didn’t know!). Two shows nightly, at nine and eleven p.m.
I’ve had a lot of good things to say about Fred over the years, of which this quote, from a New York Times profile, is representative:

Hersch…improvises with the sharp conceptual clarity of a classical composer; instead of merely skimming atop the familiar chord changes of standard songs, he forges them into rigorously structured, wholly personal re-creations. “I like to play orchestrally–juggling several balls, having lots of layers of stuff going on,” he says. Yet even at its most complex, his playing never sounds premeditated: it is as though each song is being spontaneously composed, on the spot and in the moment.

For more information, go here.

TT: Almanac

May 1, 2007 by Terry Teachout

“Every journalist is haunted by the spectre of Himself Repeated.”
Neville Cardus, Autobiography

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

About

About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

Follow Us on TwitterFollow Us on RSSFollow Us on E-mail

@Terryteachout1

Tweets by TerryTeachout1

Archives

May 2007
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Apr   Jun »

An ArtsJournal Blog

Recent Posts

  • Stumbling down memory lane
  • Replay: Ginette Neveu plays Chausson’s Poème
  • Almanac: Mary Renault on love and hate
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on mixed feelings
  • Snapshot: Rudyard Kipling speaks about writing and truth

Copyright © 2021 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in