“What kind of artist was Norman Rockwell? Not until his later years does anyone seem to have asked that question other than in passing. It was taken for granted, even by Rockwell, that he was an illustrator–a painter whose canvases were commissioned by magazine editors and advertising agencies for purely commercial purposes…”
Archives for March 15, 2014
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
“Four months after ‘Virginia Woolf’ opened, the original cast made a studio recording of the play. Columbia Records released it as a pricey four-LP set that went out of print a few years later and was never reissued–until now. Masterworks Broadway has finally released ‘Virginia Woolf,’ both as a digital download and as a two-CD set. What’s more, it’s even more of a rarity than you might suppose. The ‘Virginia Woolf’ album is still, so far as I know, the only uncut commercial sound recording of a major 20th-century English-language play to have been made by the entire original cast…”