{"id":154,"date":"2005-08-30T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=154"},"modified":"2005-08-30T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T08:04:00","slug":"with_but_a_single_thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/08\/with_but_a_single_thought\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;With But A Single Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The man who created these all-too-human ballets led a life outwardly uneventful, at least by the standards of the best-seller list. He fled the Soviet Union in 1924, settling first in Europe and then in New York City, where he started a dance school and a series of ballet companies. For the rest of his days, he made and rehearsed dances. That was all there was to it, he claimed. Asked on one occasion by a journalist to sum up his life, he replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s all in the programs.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0151010889\/qid=1125186934\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1?v=glance%26s=books\"target=\"_blank\"><em>All In The Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine<\/em><\/a>, by Terry Teachout<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>My only conversation with Coltrane took place in 1963 when he was appearing with his quartet at a Cleveland jazz club called Leo&#8217;s Casino. I was the Cleveland correspondent for <em>Down Beat<\/em> and I was assigned to interview him.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why?&#8221; asked Coltrane on the telephone.<br \/>\nI allowed that he must be tired of interviews.<br \/>\n&#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t I be?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;I can&#8217;t explain anything. It&#8217;s all in the music. Come to the club and hear the music.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/1557280614\/qid=1125187332\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2?v=glance%26s=books\"><em>Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music and Some of its Makers<\/em><\/a>, by Doug Ramsey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who created these all-too-human ballets led a life outwardly uneventful, at least by the standards of the best-seller list. He fled the Soviet Union in 1924, settling first in Europe and then in New York City, where he started a dance school and a series of ballet companies. For the rest of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}