Terry Teachout Citas

• I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

  Terry Teachout

  Graduation, People, Luck

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• (R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.

  Terry Teachout

  Editing, Attention, Half

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• ¡EXTREMADAMENTE DIVERTIDO! ¡UN SUPER-VIRTUOSO! Esperaba disfrutar con 'The Two and Only', pero no esperaba emocionarme, y mucho menos que se me humedecieran los ojos.

  Terry Teachout

  Eye, Two, Growing

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• I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.

  Terry Teachout

  Mean, Important, Jazz

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• We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice.

  Terry Teachout

  Wall, Doors, Light

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• I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.

  Terry Teachout

  Thinking, Practice, America

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• Un crítico siempre debe esforzarse por recuperar la sensación de asombro y sorpresa con la que contempló por primera vez una obra de arte que ya le resulta familiar.

  Terry Teachout

  Art, Firsts, Wonder

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• Si vuelvo a ver otra producción de Shakespeare en la que alguien conduzca un Jeep por el escenario, saldré corriendo gritando por el pasillo. Estos tienden a ser cuestiones de diseño. Quiero decir, estamos viendo un montón de - es muy común ver a Shakespeare con armas automáticas, cosas por el estilo. Son clichés. Son nuevos clichés, pero son clichés. Y son provincianos. Ya no es inteligente hacer Enrique V y que todo el mundo vaya vestido con trajes de soldado de las Naciones Unidas. Eso también lo he visto. Ese tipo de cosas me irritan.

  Terry Teachout

  Running, Clever, Mean

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• Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

  Terry Teachout

  Entertainment, Late, Novel

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• This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

  Terry Teachout

  Games, Black, May

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• I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.

  Terry Teachout

  Book, Writing, Appreciate

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• Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Critics at their best are independent voices people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers, I really do think of myself as a teacher. Newspapers that don't carry arts criticism at all while not fulfill this function. And probably their arts journalism will be deprived as a result.

  Terry Teachout

  Teacher, Art, Independent

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• El mejor thriller de Donald Westlake sobre Parker, el ladrón más duro que jamás haya existido. Agotada durante años y años, Butcher's Moon es la novela definitiva de Parker, que se lee mejor como una entrega de la serie en su conjunto, pero que es comprensible y plenamente satisfactoria por sí sola.

  Terry Teachout

  Moon, Years, Butchers

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• El disco de Armstrong que más me gusta personalmente es una grabación de una canción de Harold Arlen titulada "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . La mayoría de los solos de Armstrong solían ceñirse bastante a la melodía. Pero, por alguna razón, es como si soltara las amarras y, de repente, tocara esta hermosa línea alta, casi abstracta, que flota por encima del ritmo. Lo comparo con la forma en que un tenor de ópera del siglo XIX podría haber cantado un aria, porque se ha soltado completamente del fondo y está haciendo esta especie de magia volando por encima del pentagrama.

  Terry Teachout

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Song

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• I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.

  Terry Teachout

  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going to need another 10 seconds of music year to get them across the stage." But I always knew that the people were going to be coming to hear his music of which my words are going to be a part. It was clear that he wanted to go and direction A., and I wanted to go and direction B. We would've gone and direction A. That's the most important piece of advice I can give to anybody who finds themselves in an opera, or musical comedy situation like that.

  Terry Teachout

  Gente, Dar, Consejos

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• The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.

  Terry Teachout

  Senior, Writing, Past

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• Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the director is doing unless you know a lot about theater and even then you can only deduce it. You know it when you go to rehearsal. You really know it when they are rehearsing something of yours. I learned more in the rehearsals for The Letter than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

  Terry Teachout

  Art, Idiot, Invisible

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• I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.

  Terry Teachout

  Couple, Writing, Successful

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• The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political Shakespeare production and I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat as long as it's surprising, as long as it's not just the standard, "out of the box" pseudo-transgressive production that we just see too much of nowadays.

  Terry Teachout

  Stupid, Long, Political

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• Blogging has mostly been an opportunity to react more immediately to experiences to try out ideas that I may end up using in the print media or in some other place. When I write books, it's a way for me to bring readers into the experience of writing the book, all through the process of writing the books that I write. I talk about what I'm up to in the blog. I let people know what I am doing. To me, it's just part of putting my professional life up in a way that people who are interested in it can access; and learning things from them as well.

  Terry Teachout

  Libro, Escritura, Oportunidad

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• The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go to the theater expecting to see an old-fashioned "Hamlet" where everybody wears an old fashioned costume. You don't get points for putting on a "Hamlet" where everybody dresses in black. I've seen that one several times. But again, it's not that it has to be new, it simply that it has to be different, fresh, that it doesn't bore, that it doesn't make me - I don't feel as I'm watching it that I know where it's going to go.

  Terry Teachout

  Black, Different, Problem

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• It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or whatever concept is being laid over the play, then it is to see a production of Shakespeare in which there is no conceptual overlay and the play is simply being presented on its own terms.

  Terry Teachout

  Common, Nazi, Homosexual

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• The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people. Young people aren't starting to listen to Jazz and carrying it along in their lives with them. Jazz is becoming more like Classical music in terms of its relationship to the audience. And just a Classical music is grappling with the problem of audience development, so is Jazz grappling with this problem. I believe, deeply that Jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say to ordinary people. But it has to be systematic about getting out the message.

  Terry Teachout

  Creer, Gente, Edad

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• Tenía en mente una lista de comprobación de las cosas que hacen que una biografía sea práctica. ¿Está centralizado el material fuente? ¿Es fácil de encontrar? ¿Hay nuevas fuentes primarias a las que nadie haya tenido acceso antes? ¿Están todas las fuentes en inglés? Si no lo están, ¿están en un idioma que se hable? Y me di cuenta de que Armstrong no sólo es la figura más importante del jazz del siglo XX, sino que es un tema perfecto para una biografía por todas estas razones. Siempre me había gustado su música y me había fascinado como personalidad. Y esa es realmente la clave para escribir una biografía.

  Terry Teachout

  Writing, Perfect, Personality

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