• If you live in the Baltimore area, I’ll be speaking about Duke Ellington tonight at 6:30 in the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, located on 400 Cathedral Street, in which I spent many happy hours doing research in the Mencken Room once upon a time.
For more information, go here.
• I recently taped an episode of Theater Talk with John Douglas Thompson, the star of Satchmo at the Waldorf. It’ll be airing on Channel 13, New York’s PBS affiliate, on Friday at one a.m. and on CUNY-TV, the station of the City of the University of New York, on Saturday at eight-thirty p.m, with four more replays on Sunday and Monday.
For a complete listing of air times for the episode, go here.
Archives for March 26, 2014
Snapshot: Jerome Robbins’ The Concert
An excerpt from Jerome Robbins’ The Concert (or the Perils of Everybody), set to the music of Chopin and danced by the Paris Opera Ballet:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
Almanac: Isaac D’Israeli on imperfection and greatness
“The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.”
Isaac D’Israeli, Essay on the Literary Character