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Safety, Solvency, Service
These past few weeks, a whole world of arts organizations have been searching for, revisiting, or assembling-on-the-fly their emergency readiness plans as the pandemic turns… [read more] -
GC CUNY Keeps the Conversation Going
While events are postponed at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in the heart of Manhattan, videos of recent public programs… [read more] -
Tripleplusgood
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review a pay-per-view webcast performance by Houston’s Alley Theatre of a stage version of 1984. (This review was written… [read more] -
Joy in the afternoon
This is, first of all, an expression of profound gratitude. I knew that many people were following the unfolding story of my beloved Hilary, but… [read more] -
Replay: Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring
The New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble plays the original chamber-orchestra version of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring in concert in 2014: (This is the latest in… [read more]
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Almanac: Louisa May Alcott on love and death
“‘I used to think I couldn’t let you go, but I’m learning to feel that I don’t lose you, that you’ll be more to me… [read more]
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They don’t trust me with cheese
‘The man next to us is honking like a seal,’ whispered my friend Mel at the interval of One Man, Two Guvnors. It was the… [read more] -
Almanac: J.M. Synge on death
“Michael has a clean burial in the far north, by the grace of the Almighty God. Bartley will have a fine coffin out of the white boards,… [read more]
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Obituary Hugh Cecil
Search The Times and The Sunday TimesToday’s sections Past six daysM articlesTimes+My account RegisterOBITUARY Historian and biographer with a Bloomsbury background who unearthed forgotten writers of the… [read more]
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More on Shuttered NYC Institutions: A Brief Reprieve for Met’s Endangered Staff; A “Frick Breuer” Update
The Metropolitan Museum’s jittery staff members, some of whose livelihoods are likely to be jeopardized due to the virus crisis, have been granted a month-long… [read more] -
Ask
In efforts to be good community citizens, examine your assumptions. Ask others: What would be most helpful?… [read more] -
Snapshot: Aretha Franklin sings Hoagy Carmichael
Aretha Franklin sings “Skylark,” by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, on The New Steve Allen Show. This episode was originally taped on May 19, 1964, for syndicated… [read more]
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Almanac: Justice Holmes on the death of his wife
“Of course I knew I could rely on your sympathy. I am reconciled by the certainty that a continuance of life would have meant only… [read more]
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Hilary Teachout, R.I.P.
Hilary Dyson Teachout, the “Mrs. T” of this blog, suffered throughout the decade and a half of our life together from pulmonary hypertension, a rare… [read more] -
Strategic Planning and Muddling Through
Out in the woods for today’s video, on Charles Lindblom’s classic essay “The science of ‘muddling through'”. When an arts organization sets out to form… [read more]
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An Intriguing Trio Album
Asked about his intriguing new album, west coast trumpeter Dick Titterington talked about the project’s genesis at a Christmas party. At their bandleader’s request, each… [read more] -
Into the Woods | Lockdown Theatre Club 2
Our twitter poll asking for people’s favourite genre saw an overwhelming vote for musicals. Cheer was needed. As it was also Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday,… [read more] -
A Slice of Life in Lockdown
The Amazon delivery guy rang the bell, then scampered off to safety behind the garden gate, a good distance, but not so far that he… [read more]
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Lookback: some memories of a son and spouse
From 2017: The same friend asked me the other day to sum up my life. “I had a mother who believed I could do anything… [read more]
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Almanac: Ursula K. Le Guin on suffering
“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled.” Ursula K…. [read more]