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TT: Found poem

February 22, 2012 by Terry Teachout

DukeEllingtonBlackBrownBeigeLarge.jpg%20%28BB%26B%20ALBUM%29.jpgThese are the working titles of the thirteen chapters of Mood Indigo: A Life of Duke Ellington. (I say “working” because even though I no longer expect to change them, you never know.) As was the case with the chapter titles of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, they are all phrases that were spoken by Ellington at one time or another in his life:
• “I want to tell America”
• “I just couldn’t be shackled”
• “Soft and gut-bucket”
• “My ear makes my decision”
• “A higher plateau”
• “The way the president travels”
• “The eyes in the back of my head”
• “The sea of expectancy”
• “We didn’t believe in categories”
• “More a business than an art”
• “I was born in 1956”
• “Fate’s being kind to me”
• “That big yawning void”
I think they make a rather nice little poem, don’t you?

TT: Snapshot

February 22, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Kenneth Tynan interviews Laurence Olivier in 1966:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac

February 22, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“Honors go to those who want them.”
Michael Oakeshott (quoted in Paul Franco, Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, courtesy of Tim Hulsey)

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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