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Louis Armstrong's heterodox views.
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November 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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How a songwriting craftsman became an artist.
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October 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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Giving a remarkable comic playwright his due at long last.
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September 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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On writing an opera after a career critiquing the creative work of others.
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July/August 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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A playwright remains beloved because he confirms the prejudices of his audience.
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June 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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How an actor came to personify his country’s decline
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May 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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A half-forgotten playwright gets the revival he deserves.
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April 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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One of the enduring novelists of the 20th Century was also, perhaps, its most religious.
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March 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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His visual acuity was both his glory and his failing.
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February 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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An annotated list of 25 performances that have given a lifetime of listening pleasure.
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January 2009 |
Terry Teachout |
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No individual did more to transform England's classical-music culture than this eccentric, flamboyant, and tireless professional.
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December 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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A well-regarded historian has changed his mind about the "creation myth" of America's most distinctive popular music; will anyone follow?
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November 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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Was the "golden age" of American movies as golden as all that?
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October 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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A new biography reveals a disillusioning truth about the great soprano Lotte Lehmann, as, alas, about many artists.
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September 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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Have we become two nations, all too divisible?
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July/August 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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In his lifetime, the great composer was most renowned as a conductor, including of the New York Philharmonic.
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June 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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In a long line of preachers, visionaries, and prophets, few have transcended the cruel limitations under which their rulers have forced them to function.
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May 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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The great pianists of the 19th century forged a musical golden age.
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April 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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Was it wise to fight the cultural battles of the cold war with witting and unwitting "front groups"?
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March 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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Why does Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd--up for several Oscars on Sunday night--succeed so brilliantly?
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February 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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By harnessing classical music to political ends, the Third Reich reduced German cultural dominance to ashes.
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January 2008 |
Terry Teachout |
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Writing a grand account of modernism in the arts is hard enough; misunderstanding it does not help.
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December 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
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Terry Teachout discusses his essay in the October issue of COMMENTARY, Claire Danes as Eliza Doolittle, the Japanese lithographer Toko Shinoda, and more.
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Web Only |
Terry Teachout |
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Can a cricket correspondent become a foremost writer on classical music? This one did.
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November 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
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A new critical history of the modernist movement hits the right notes.
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October 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
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Of the challenges facing the new music director of the New York Philharmonic, staging outstanding concerts is the least.
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September 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
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American culture is unintelligible apart from the country's religious sense of itself.
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July/August 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
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Behind George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet was a rich amateur who turned himself into a professional.
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June 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
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A new release of his Mozart and Schubert recordings makes clear why this piano virtuoso, who died in 1951, is still admired to the point of idolatry.
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May 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
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Tom Stoppard's trilogy about Russian revolutionaries makes for an inconclusive politics but deeply affecting art.
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April 2007 |
Terry Teachout |
