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TT: A date with Cassandra

February 24, 2009 by Terry Teachout

img_286095_primary.jpgSniffles or no sniffles, I’m about to hit the road again. On Thursday morning I’ll be flying down to Raleigh, North Carolina, to see my beloved Carolina Ballet give the first of five performances of Tempest Fantasy, a ballet choreographed by Robert Weiss in 2006 to the Pulitzer-winning piece of the same name by Paul Moravec, my old friend and operatic collaborator. Paul will be present to take an opening-night bow, and I’ll be somewhere in the audience, cheering him on.
bach_group_photo.jpgFrom there I’m going still further south. If you should happen to be anywhere near Orlando, Florida, on Saturday afternoon, I’ll be giving a lecture at the seventy-fourth annual Winter Park Bach Festival, where Brahms’ German Requiem is being performed twice this weekend. The title of my lecture is “Does Classical Music Have a Future?” Among other things, some grim and some hopeful, I’ll be talking about The Letter, the opera that Paul and I have written for the Santa Fe Opera, and how it fits into the larger context of what classical musicians must do to reach out to new audiences in the twenty-first century.
I’ll be speaking at Rollins College’s Tiedke Concert Hall at one p.m. on Saturday. A performance of the German Requiem will take place across the street at Knowles Memorial Chapel immediately afterward.
For more information, go here.
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Last week I spoke to Elizabeth Maupin of the Orlando Sentinel about my Bach Festival lecture. To read her story, go here.

TT: Apologetically yours

February 24, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Regular readers of this blog know that I was on the move more or less continuously from the end of December to the beginning of February. During that time I fell behind on answering my e-mail, and the “About Last Night” server discourteously deleted a dozen or so (if not more) of my accumulated messages.
As of today I’m completely caught up on such blogmail as remains in my box. If you haven’t heard back from me, it means that the computer ate your message. Forgive me, and please write again!

TT: Almanac

February 24, 2009 by Terry Teachout

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

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...]

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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...]

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