Kurt Weill’s “Note Concerning Jazz”
# # In Berlin 1929 Kurt Weil wrote a “Note Concerning Jazz” which today reads as both a prediction and a warning.# Weill wrote in part: # “Today it appears to me… … read more
AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2016-05-08
AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2016-05-08
Weekend Extra: Bing Crosby And John Coltrane
Bing Crosby introduced “Love Thy Neighbor” in a scene with Ethel Merman and Leon Errol when Crosby co-starred with Carol Lombard (both pictured left) in the 1934 motion picture We’re Not Dressing. Crosby followed up… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-05-08
Bing Crosby introduced “Love Thy Neighbor” in a scene with Ethel Merman and Leon Errol when Crosby co-starred with Carol Lombard (both pictured left) in the 1934 motion picture We’re Not Dressing. Crosby followed up… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-05-08
Three Centennial Parties for Harold Norse
Harold Norse, the late poet and memoirist, desperately wanted his name in lights. Now he has it — thanks to Todd Swindell. Swindell’s assiduous effort to memorialize him goes beyond dedicated. He has not… … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-05-06
Contraction Action: Sotheby’s & Christie’s Confront New Market Reality (plus Koons &…
The operative words for the art market this season are “correction” and “contraction.” So Sotheby’s can be forgiven for seeking comfort in nostalgia, via this Monday tweet, recalling a past triumph: #OnThisDay in 2012,… … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2016-05-06
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