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P.P.C.
I forgot to mention it on Monday, but I just started a two-week holiday from my duties as drama critic of The Wall Street Journal. ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-21
Snapshot: Britten’s First String Quartet
The Escher String Quartet plays the first movement of Benjamin Britten’s First Quartet, composed in 1941: (This is the latest in a series of ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-21
Almanac: Lennox Berkeley on artistic originality
“True originality in an artist does not consist in his being peculiar, but in his being peculiar to himself.” Lennox Berkeley, “Britten and His String ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-21
Relationships Checkup
Some time ago, while discussing relationship maintenance, a student of mine shared with her training group a practice she employed to keep community relationships ... read more
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2019-08-20
Lookback: a biographer makes last-minute fixes
From 2009: Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, which comes out in December, is about to go to the printer. This means that I still ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-20
Almanac: Ronald Knox on the devil today
“It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.” Ronald Knox, Let ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-20
Martha Over the Years
When Janet Eilber, artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, stepped through Jacob’s Pillow’s front curtain to introduce the group’s performance, she mentioned that ... read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2019-08-19
Just because: the Benny Goodman Quartet in 1937
The original Benny Goodman Quartet performs “I’ve Got a Heartful of Music” in Hollywood Hotel, directed by Busby Berkeley and released in 1937. Goodman is heard ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-19
Almanac: Ronald Knox on progress and the automobile
“The motor-car, in bringing us all closer together, by making it easy to have luncheon two counties away, has driven us all further apart, by ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-19
This Week’s Top Audience Stories: Building A Better Audience
This Week’s Insights: Focused on building a better audience… When the buzz drowns out the show… New York’s Culture Pass is a hit… Rethinking the ... read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2019-08-18
Memories From Ystad And Elsewhere
In the wake of the Ystad Jazz Festival in Sweden, the distinguished Swedish jazz journalist Jan Olsson sent a photograph of the late saxophonist and ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-08-17
Hear Me Here: Podcast of My KPCC Commentary on the Frisco Fresco Fracas (plus a new controversy)
If you missed me yesterday in real time, when I was interviewed on Southern California Public Radio by arts and culture reporter Chloe Veltman about ... read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2019-08-16
Cheers for Jenn Thompson
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s revival of Into the Woods and the Broadway premiere of Sea Wall/A Life. ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-16
Replay: Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison “rehearse” My Fair Lady
Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison appear in a staged, scripted recreation of the first rehearsal for the 1956 Broadway premiere of My Fair Lady, in which ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-16
Almanac: Montaigne on getting along with uneducated people
“We live and negotiate with the people; if their conversation be troublesome to us, if we disdain to apply ourselves to mean and vulgar souls ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-08-16