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TT: Among the eggheads

October 22, 2013 by Terry Teachout

daed.2013.142.issue-4.largecover.jpgYes, I still have another life! As I mentioned in this space in August, Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will be publishing an excerpt from Satchmo at the Waldorf in its fall issue, which is devoted to the subject of American music. The issue, guest-edited by Gerald Early, Patrick Burke, and Mina Yang, is now out, and I’m happy to say that it’s full of good things, most particularly an essay by John H. McWhorter that delves into the all-but-unknown history of Early to Bed, the now-forgotten 1943 Broadway musical for which none other than Fats Waller wrote the score.
The publication of “Satchmo’s Shadow,” the excerpt from Satchmo at the Waldorf, marks the first time that any part of my first play has appeared in print, and I’m honored that no less prestigious a journal than Daedalus thought it fit to print.
Alas, you can’t read Daedalus for free on line, but you can download individual articles from the fall issue by going here, or purchase a Kindle edition by going here.

TT: Turn your radio on

October 22, 2013 by Terry Teachout

I’ll be talking about Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington today at eleven a.m. on NPR’s On Point. The host is Tom Ashbrook. To listen, go here.

TT: Lookback

October 22, 2013 by Terry Teachout

From 2009:

I hasten to point out that I no longer own any long-playing records or cassettes, and that I spend more time listening to music on my MacBook and iPod than on my CD player. No doubt the time will also come when I spend more time reading books on a Kindle, or something like it, than reading the handsomely bound volumes shelved in my living room. Not for me the self-conscious posturing of those curmudgeonly poseurs who wail Change and decay in all around I see! at every opportunity. Nor would I surprised if my next book, whatever it happens to be and whenever it happens to come out, is published solely in electronic form–yet I can’t imagine that the thrill I get from downloading the first “copy” will be half so intense as the one I got last week when I held the first finished copy of Pops in my hands….

Read the whole thing here.

TT: Your daily dose of Duke (cont’d)

October 22, 2013 by Terry Teachout

Duke Ellington plays “Bourbon Street Jingling Jollies,” a movement from New Orleans Suite:

TT: Almanac

October 22, 2013 by Terry Teachout

“The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table

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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