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“In C” for performance on any laptop, thanks to LUTE
Terry Riley’s 1964 ingenious, joyful and warm composition “In C” can now be performed by anyone with a laptop, regardless of their previous musical or technological experience. On Sunday 8/12/18, the Loyola University Technology Ensemble ... read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond JazzPublished 2018-08-14
Lookback: on checking the MS. of Pops for repeated words and phrases
From 2008: One of the advantages of writing a book on a word processor is that you can search the manuscript for repeated words and phrases. This can be, to say the least, a chastening ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-14
Almanac: Aldous Huxley on fiction and reality
“‘The trouble with fiction,’ said John Rivers, ‘is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.’” Aldous Huxley, “John Rivers” (in The Genius and the Goddess) ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-14
John Luther Adams’ In the Name of the Earth: 600 singers make elemental music
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine during the premiere of John Luther Adams’ In the Name of the Earth “If you see 600 singers coming towards you, get out of the way.” That advice ... read more
AJBlog: Condemned to MusicPublished 2018-08-13
Sargent With A Local Twist And Double Narrative
The Art Institute of Chicago’s major summer exhibition, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, is probably a crowd-pleaser–though I haven’t checked the numbers. Sargent is usually a big draw–I remember when, to cite one ... read more
AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2018-08-13
Monday Recommendation: Karrin Allyson
Karrin Allyson, Some Of That Sunshine (kasrecords) Ms. Allyson’s songwriting ability surfaced early in her career. In Some Of That Sunshine, it is on full display; she wrote all 13 songs in ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-08-13
Hear me talking to you (cont’d)
Titus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and present, invited me back to talk about Charles Laughton’s The Night ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-13
Just because: Leonard Bernstein on Gustav Mahler
“Who Is Gustav Mahler?”, a Young People’s Concert by Leonard Bernstein, Reri Grist, Helen Raab, and the New York Philharmonic. This program was originally telecast from Carnegie Hall by CBS on February 7, 1960, at ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-13
Almanac: Ralph Vaughan Williams on Gustav Mahler
“Intimate acquaintance with the executive side of music in orchestra, chorus and opera made even Mahler into a very tolerable imitation of a composer.” Ralph Vaughan Williams, “A Musical Autobiography” ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-13
Recent Listening: JD Allen
It’s nice to go traveling, even knowing that the mailman, FedEx and UPS will have delivered more albums than anyone could possibly hear without giving up sleeping, eating and cycling. Catching up ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-08-12
Bernstein the Educator
Museums curate the past. They help us to shape and populate our impressions of history. Orchestras do not curate the past. A typical symphonic program (alas) begins with the selection of a soloist. The ... read more
AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2018-08-12
This Week’s Audience Insights: “Popular” Versus “Best”
This week’s insights: Oscar’s battles with popular and best… MoviePass has changed how views decide to go out to see movies… Is the 8PM curtain time falling to on-demand expectations? Movies As Popularity Contest? The ... read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2018-08-12
Recent Listening: Cy Coleman
Cy Coleman, A Jazzman’s Broadway (Harbinger Records) Cy Coleman’s success as a popular songwriter and a composer for musical theater overshadowed his effectiveness and influence as a jazz pianist. Nonetheless, as this ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-08-11
Private, public, plural
In the U.S. we’ve agreed to disagree about what to call that “other” sector of collective action that isn’t private (aka, privately owned business) and isn’t public (aka, government). Non-profit, not-for-profit, third, social, civil, voluntary ... read more
AJBlog: The Artful ManagerPublished 2018-08-10
Robert Sherwood returns
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review an extremely rare Massachusetts revival of Robert Sherwood’s The Petrified Forest and the off-Broadway transfer of Be More Chill. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Few ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-10
Replay: Satchel Paige appears on I’ve Got a Secret
Leroy “Satchel” Paige appears as the guest on I’ve Got a Secret. This episode was originally telecast by CBS on November 22, 1965. Steve Allen is the host and the panelists are Bill Cullen, Henry ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-10
Almanac: Chekhov on persistence
“Write, write, write! It is necessary. Even should the play fail, don’t let that discourage you. A failure will soon be forgotten, but a success, however slight, may be of vast service to the theatre.” ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-10
Profit Flop at Sotheby’s: Auction Houses’ Self-Defeating Assumption of Consignors’ Risk
My critical analysis at the end of last spring’s round of major New York art auctions, in which I argued that auction-house arrangements with consignors “have become too arcane, convoluted and counterproductive for the market’s ... read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2018-08-09
The poet and the pistol
In the online edition of today’s Wall Street Journal, I review the off-Broadway premiere of Jonathan Leaf’s Pushkin: A Life Played Out. Here’s an excerpt. * * * George Balanchine called Tchaikovsky “Pushkin in music: ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-09
He made music a laughing matter
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I pay tribute to Spike Jones. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Humor and music aren’t always strange bedfellows, but they sometimes make for an uneasy fit. From ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-08-09

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