Here’s how NBC Nightly News covered the death of Louis Armstrong on July 6, 1971. The anchorman is John Chancellor. The music accompanying the montage of still photos is an edited version of the 1950 Armstrong All Stars studio recording of “New Orleans Function”:
Archives for July 7, 2009
TT: Tweeting an opera
Paul Moravec is phoning me from the Santa Fe Opera House to report on rehearsals for The Letter. Instead of putting up minute-by-minute posts at “About Last Night,” I plan to tweet about the rehearsals from now through opening night (though I’ll also continue to post full-length blog entries about The Letter as time permits).
To read my tweets, go to the right-hand column and look at the “Terry’s Twitters” module, or go directly to my Twitter page and start following me.
TT: Almanac
“Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.”
Anton Chekhov, letter to K.S. Barantsevich (Mar. 3, 1888)