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TT: A little traveling music

July 10, 2013 by Terry Teachout

In addition to my trusty iPod, I’m traveling with the following compact discs for in-car listening:
chris_thile.jpg• An advance copy of Chris Thile’s Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1, out next month from Nonesuch
• The complete recordings of the Alec Wilder Octet, burned for me by Alastair Robertson of Hep Records (I’m writing the liner notes for Hep’s upcoming reissue of the octet sides)
• Jim Hall Live! Vol. 2-4
• Booker T. and the MGs: The Definitive Soul Collection
In the immortal words of Spencer Tracy, what’s there is cherce!

TT: Snapshot

July 10, 2013 by Terry Teachout

A rare film of Dimitri Mitropoulos rehearsing the New York Philharmonic in an excerpt from Liszt’s Faust Symphony:

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

TT: Almanac

July 10, 2013 by Terry Teachout

And I wish desperately for qualities

Moments like this demand, and which I lack.


Philip Larkin, “The Dance” (courtesy of John Podhoretz)

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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