- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Your Daily Vid
Your Daily Vid: The music of On the Road
November 22, 2007 – 1:31 pm
Here is why Jack Kerouac was the best of the Beats, reading from On the Road on the Steve Allen Show (Allen is playing the piano). Here is the result of creating the appearance of an overflowing of power emotion. Here is the treasure that comes from making the arduous task of making writing look [...]
Your Daily Vid: David Sedaris and the ‘Stadium Pal’
November 21, 2007 – 11:33 am
In an August interview with David Sedaris, a master of dry, understated satire and contributor to the New Yorker, he told me about the “Stadium Pal,” the subject of this segment of the Letterman show. There wasn’t much left to be said. It’s an adhesive condom-like device that leads to an external catheter strapped to [...]
Your Daily Vid: Arnold Schoenberg
November 19, 2007 – 10:21 am
You have to marvel at the power of Web 2.0. When I was a music student, we had to scour library catalogs to hear examples of music we were studying. Now, not only can you hear the music, but you can see people playing it — and playing it really, really well — with a [...]
Your Daily Vid: McCoy Tyner & Co.
November 16, 2007 – 10:39 am
When it comes to sheer badass-ness, jazz pianist McCoy Tyner fits the bill. Throughout his long career, he has attracted an army of “out” jazz musicians. Check this bass solo by Charnett Moffett. It’s about as “out” as it get. As Miles Davis might say: that motherfucker terrible. This video comes in two parts, plus [...]
Your Daily Vid: Robert Hughes
November 15, 2007 – 1:53 pm
Since I’m the new guy in town, I have to arrange interviews in order to get to know people in the arts community. Yesterday, I talked to Emily Wilhoit, the charming and driven woman who is the sole employee of the League of Charleston Theatres, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to make people aware [...]
Your Daily Vid: Glenn Gould
November 13, 2007 – 12:42 pm
Glenn Gould tears up some Bach in his house.
Your Daily Vid: Mstislav Rostropovich
November 12, 2007 – 5:05 am
The late Mstislav Rostropovich plays Bach.
