Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Dinah Shore and Peggy Lee sing “I Got Rhythm” on an episode of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, originally telecast by NBC on May 17, 1959:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
‘Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.”
Max Beerbohm, “Laughter”
“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.”
Max Beerbohm, “No. 2, The Pines”
Erroll Garner plays his “Misty” on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was originally telecast live by CBS on March 26, 1961:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.”
Henry James, “Robert Louis Stevenson”
From 2016:
Read the whole thing here.In December of 1969, Esquire invited twenty-five venerable celebrities to offer end-of-the-decade advice, most of it predictably platitudinous, to the magazine’s younger readers….
My question is this: how many of those names do you recognize?
“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.”
Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Evelyn Waugh is interviewed by John Freeman on a 1953 episode of Face to Face, originally telecast by the BBC:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)