Category: AJBlogs

The change continues
I used to call it the decline of classical music – the aging, shrinking audience, the mounting financial woes. But now I’d rather call it the change. The old ways fade, becoming unsustainable.  read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-09-14

A Delectable Selection of Native American Art, With Just One Problem
If you read my last post, about thematic exhibition cooperation among museums, you know I was in Santa Fe recently. But why was I in Santa Fe – that’s another story, one that resulted in a review … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-09-13

Monday Recommendation: A Garner Classic Made Whole
Erroll Garner’s heroic 1955 concert will be released this week in its entirety for the first time. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-09-14

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• Step Quickly; Don’t Fall Off the World Canadian dancer-choreographer Louise Lecavalier brings her  “So Blue” to New York Live Arts.  read more
  AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-09-13
• Ted, Tea and Arts Talk Our first lucky break came when my old friend, F. Cowles Strickland, founding-director of the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, began to drop in on our practice sessions. He asked many intelligent questions which I… … read more
  AJBlog: We The AudiencePublished 2015-09-13
• Weekend Extra: A Film About Chuck Israels Following his five years as the bassist in the Bill Evans Trio, Chuck Israels worked with a variety of leaders, among them J.J. Johnson, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock and Hampton Hawes. His repertory orchestra, The… … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-09-12
• Messages from Above Summation Dance celebrates its fifth anniversary at BAM Fisher. Members of Summation Dance (L to to R: Devin Oshiro, Megan Wubbenhorst, Allie Lochary, Angela Curotto, and Taryn Vander Hoop) hold Sumi Clements in Clements’ At… … read more
  AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-09-12

Whopping Risk for Sotheby’s: Some $500 Million Guaranteed to Taubman Estate
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-10

Public Art Highlights from first week in September
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds Published 2015-09-10

From Fleet Street to Biafra … and to MI6
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-09-10

So you want to see a show?
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-09-10

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Artcentric Engagement
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-09-09

MoMA’s ‘Picasso Sculpture’ Blunder: Mr. Lowry, Put Up Those Labels!
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-09

Summer Museum Sightings, Part 2: Thematic Cooperation
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-09-09

23,226 days 11 hours, 23 minutes and counting: Long Live the Queen!
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2015-09-09

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Master Teacher
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-09-07

Monday Recommendation: Fred Hersch
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-09-07

Other Matters: Our Poor Language
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-09-08

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Newcomers in Grahamland
Dancebeat Published 2015-09-04

Trumpeting a Strumpet; Slammer to Glamor: Modigiliani & Taubman Faceoff in Auction Wars
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-04

In Defense of the Box Office
AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-09-04

Other Matters: Plain English
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-09-04

Molé and Tequila

AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-09-06

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• John Lennon Sang It: ‘Imagine there’s no borders …’
  Posted at Stop the War coalition:For the first time in the post-World War II era, more than 50 million people are on the move — as refugees, asylum-seekers or internally displaced. They are mostly fleeing… … read more
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-09-06
• Molé and Tequila
  A few months ago, I was supposed to be in Italy this week for a totalism festival at Bari Conservatory. That got canceled or postponed due to massive administrative changes at the Conservatory, so maybe… … read more
  AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-09-06
• The Willis Conover Archive Is Online
  The music program at the University of North Texas has graduated hundreds of jazz artists who went on to successful careers as professionals. Woody Herman populated virtually an entire edition of his Thundering Herd of… …read more
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-09-04
• Other Matters: Plain English
  In the English language, the word “that” used as a conjunction can illuminate meaning and make for easier comprehension. Yet, today more and more editors and speakers eliminate the word, and clarity suffers. Here are… …read more
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-09-04
• Newcomers in Grahamland
  The Martha Graham Dance Company presents new, recent, and classic works at Jacob’s Pillow. Ben Schultz and PeiJu Chien-Pott of the Martha Graham Dance Company in Mats Ek’s Axe. Photo: Christopher Duggan The last week… … read more
  AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-09-04
• Trumpeting a Strumpet; Slammer to Glamor: Modigiliani & Taubman Faceoff in Auction Wars
  I had a did-he-really-say-that moment early last month, when listening to Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith woo stock analysts during the auction house’ssecond-quarter conference call: Smith, new to Sotheby’s, glowingly cited the late A. Alfred… … read more

DeFranco & Gibbs: Fast And Flexible
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-09-02

So you want to see a show?
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-09-03

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By The Numbers, Good Museum News in Virginia
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-09-02

Politics and music
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-09-02

Hamilton‘s Universal Appeal: A Writer’s Writer, Immigrant’s Immigrant (and a Christie’s Market Tie-In)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-02

I’m Weird
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-09-02

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Best Practices
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-09-01

Lookback: on being funny—on paper
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-09-01

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