David Bruce Anecdotes
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Fathers
• Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski’s father had the chance to play minor-league baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but unfortunately it was during the Great Depression, and so he turned them down so he could continue working on his potato farm and continue being sure that his family could eat. However, he was determined that his son would have a chance to be a professional baseball player and so he did such things as form his own baseball team. Each member of the team was named either Yastrzemski or Skonieczny (the maiden name of Carl’s mother) because each member of the team was also related to every other member. Carl’s father would also not allow him to play football during his senior year because of fear of an injury. Carl secretly went out for the football team anyway, and when his father found out, he went to the football practice field and dragged Carl — literally — off it. Carl played baseball at the University of Notre Dame, where he once hit a baseball during batting practice over 500 feet onto the football team’s practice field. Football coach Hank Stram looked at the ball and said, “I bet Yastrzemski hit this.”
• The father of Boston Celtics great Bill Russell didn’t want money from his son, even though Bill was making good money as a star for the Boston Celtics. Whenever Bill wanted to give him money, he would say, “I got a job. I got my own d*mn money.” Bill would then say, “But that’s a terrible job. You work in a foundry. All your pants have holes in them from the sparks. There’s dust and metal particles in the air. And you’re by furnaces and then you go outside and it’s freezing. It’s terrible.” Bill’s father would reply, “I can’t quit this job.” Then he would explain why he couldn’t quit: “Listen, son. I’ve given these people thirty-five of the best years of my life. Now, I’ll give them a few of the bad ones!” Even though Bill’s father never would take money from him, Bill figured out a way to give him a new car. He simply paid for the car and told the dealership where to deliver it. When the brand-new car was delivered, Bill’s father cried. A little later, he called Bill to say, “I’m really p*ssed off at you.” Bill asked, “Why?” His father explained, “Because I just got the first speeding ticket of my life!”
• When NBA star David Robinson’s father, Ambrose, was in high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, he took a college exam. He scored very high on it, higher than most of the white students, but because he was African-American, some people felt that he could have not scored that high. Therefore, he had to take the college entrance test again while test proctors carefully watched him. This time, Ambrose Robinson earned an even higher score! With a father like that, David had to get good grades, of course. In junior high, David’s report card for a grading period had one A, two B’s, and a C. David’s father grounded him for six weeks.
• Basketball great Michael Jordan’s father died senselessly. He was murdered for his money when a couple of hoodlums found him sleeping in his car. Mr. Jordan did not attend the trial, and he did not ask for capital punishment for the murderers of his father. When asked about the killers, he would say, “My father is dead. That’s all I care about.”
• When professional beach volleyball player Gabrielle Reece was five years old, her father, Robert Eduardo Reece, died in an airplane crash. At the time of the accident, he was wearing a silver cross on a necklace. The necklace and silver cross were recovered and given to Gabrielle and are among her most treasured possessions.
Fights
• Eddie Shore was a tough player in the NHL, and he fought often. King Clancy would not run away from a fight, but he would try to find creative ways to avoid fights. During a game pitting Mr. Shore’s Boston Bruins against Mr. Clancy’s Toronto Maple Leafs, Mr. Clancy knocked Mr. Shore to the boards. Mr. Shore took off his gloves preparatory to fighting Mr. Clancy, but Mr. Clancy grabbed his hand, shook it, and asked how Mr. Shore was doing. Mr. Shore laughed, and no fight took place.
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SWING BIG
Swing Big is a duo that features Dave Borowski on vocals and guitar, and Zeke Hutchison on mandolin. Their music relies heavily on influences drawn from jazz, swing, Western swing, blues, bluegrass, and music from the British Isles.
Dave Borowski has performed in public since 1972. In addition to studio and freelance work, he has been a member of Athens-based bands Close Enough for Jazz, Aces and Eights, the Kings of Hollywood, Deltoid, Common Ground, the Billycats, Zeke’s Fancy, and the Wingnuts. He also currently plays with J.D. Hutchison and Realbilly Jive.
Zeke Hutchison grew up around music, his father and uncle being the core of the nationally-known Hutchison Brothers. Zeke took to the mandolin at an early age. He recently recorded with (Grammy-award-winning artist) Tim O’Brien on his Short Order Sessions. O’Brien writes of Zeke as “one of the best unsung mandolin players in the world.”
Together, Swing Big performs jazz standards from the American Songbook, swing songs from the Django Reinhardt-Charlie Christian Era, country and western swing from the likes of Bob Wills, and just about anything else that might catch their ears.
For a good time, come hear ’em.
Swing Big on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@Swing Big8195
Zeke Hutchison on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@zekehutchison5672
David Borowski on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@davidborowski6425
Swing Big: “Cherokee”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhMcCuJ5Ts
Swing Big: “Evening Prayer Blues”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NDMJ5M3dJw
Swing Big: “September Song”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BptJ9LHJW-0
Zeke Hutchison and Bob Hutchison (his father): Cricket on the Hearth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBTTg-qcfzY
Swing Big (no Zeke, just Dave): “The Monkey Speaks His Mind”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iid6PA69RU
Swing Big at the Front Room, Athens Ohio 1/15/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KsR_nSVOo
SWING BIG — DAVE BOROWSKI and ZEKE HUTCHISON
https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/swing-big-dave-borowski-and-zeke-hutchison-acoustic-lunch-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-16-february-2022/ (16 February 2022)
SWING BIG — DAVE BOROWSKI and ZEKE HUTCHISON
https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/swing-big-at-the-front-room-1-15-2020/ (15 February 2020)
Words can’t describe the loss of J.D. Hutchison. He has influenced both of our lives in so many ways. Zeke lost his uncle (the Funcle, we called him), with whom he shared years and years of great times, musical and otherwise. Dave was the bassist in JD’s band, Realbilly Jive, for its entire run. However, this description only scratches the surface…
He left us the same way he lived his life … on his own terms. Many of the people he’d known throughout his life had the chance to tell him how much he meant to them, and they got to say their goodbyes. That’s a good thing.
Many, many people have posted photos, videos, recordings, and memories on social media. The number is astounding and speaks to the love people will always feel for JD, and the length and breadth of the mark he made on so many lives.
Rest In Peace, J.D. Hutchison
IN MEMORY: JD HUTCHISON (1940-2021)
JD HUTCHISON: YOU AND THE WORLD OUTSIDE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M696JJ1
JD HUTCHISON: SPOTIFY
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5FNogofbn7TBS0IayZPgcD
YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8L1CB_5DKsAHocaAV30DIpl1RRz8pj1a
JD HUTCHISON: “Ready on the Firing Line”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-sbFlUqp0
JD HUTCHISON: “Girl from the North Country”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6aIs95nNU ]
JD Hutchison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDIyNRr4Bv4
JD HUTCHISON: NMF Gladden House Sessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g57Jg7shRXU
The Hutchison Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjST8nRhcN4
J.D. Hutchison and Friends at Another Fool’s Cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUWIK4i0ztk
J.D. Hutchison: “That Ain’t All of Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbRwpF2Xgfc
Who is J.D. Hutchison?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9jPzPKyNI
Farewell and Godspeed, Brother John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovA49hrAZzE
J.D. Hutchison: “Somebody Wants Me Out of the Way”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8dP_rugf-g
J.D. HUTCHISON’s Cover of “Boots of Spanish Leather”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1FXAjZ–WY
J.D. HUTCHISON: FOUR ’TIL LATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ADYUmjpUU
IN MEMORY OF J.D. HUTCHISON
Performed by Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius. Written by Tim O’Brien and Ronnie Bowman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3XzUsk1LgU
BOILED BUZZARDS: “THREE THIN DIMES”
(Written by J.D. HUTCHISON’S FATHER: JOHN W. HUTCHISON)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_5fuF_WtU
John Dale Hutchison Obituary (The Daily Jeff)
“J.D.’s original songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including Tim O’Brien, Robert Earl Keen, K.T. Oslin, Jan Howard, Ginny Hawker, Suzanne Thomas and the bands Hot Rize and Stella. […]
“‘These are tough and tender things. We can only have confidence that the Natural Order of Things prevails–and that a wondrous life well-lived has moved on accordingly. Pain in my heart where better words should be ….’”—John Dale Hutchison (2018)
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J.D. Hutchison and Friends
FULL PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9
1. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Ain’t I Been Good to You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvlDQVSrIlE&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=4
2. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “99 Years”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okXkjcBH8U&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=9
3. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Where is My Sailor Boy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkL348MCZwo&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=5
4. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Travelin’ Down This Lonesome Road”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheOVcyxCfo&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=3
5. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Star of County Down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpXkTRiNaIc
6. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Pretty Polly”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZDBIVC9Rig&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=6
7. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Done Gone”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1ytrHocv8&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=7
8. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Another Fools’ Café”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xibbIqMCQ-g&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=1
9. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “No Rest for the Wicked”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLlctnfSNE&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=11
10. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Mr. Sandman — Shiek of Araby”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puw9QFdxB0Q&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=8
11. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Since 1942”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmEwEg9zyg8&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=10
12. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Money to Burn”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTdm-xhGq6A&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=2
POEM by J. D. Hutchison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vani6Y8eGL4
LIVE FROM HOME: ATHENS, OHIO (AND ENVIRONS) SINGER-SONGWRITERS
(All musical friends of Bruce Dalzell are honorary Athenians no matter where they live and love.)
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Gifts”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Angela Perley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “What is This You Have Done to Me”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mregk-X_Llg
Angie Heimann: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Girl with the Chestnut Hair”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue6ooyuPpgI
Ben Davis, Jr.: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Leaves”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKq8s7tQ8d4
Billy Rhinehart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Simple as I Look”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
Bob Stewart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Morning Turn”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuQ1ZpwjNY
Bruce and Gay Dalzell: Live From Home (Holiday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLetQfocFGA
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Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Camille Karavas: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Heard You Talking in My Sleep”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FE6ueEeZs
Carrie Elkin: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Gift”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69Emfug1bw
Dan Canterbury: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Diary of a Turtle”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcao2v5g0I
Danny Schmidt: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Bovine Serenade”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBPv2RNuzY
Don Baker: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Billy and Jenny and Joe”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5xqJX9Vq4
Donna Mogavero: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Restless Night”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KI8rMXiq0
Eric Gnezda: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFDnzfEDV4
Harlan Dalzell: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of Harlan Dalzell’s “Anna Lee”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVlLX923HM
Jordan Tice: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Stuff of Dreams”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrfY6QP4k0
Keith Larsen: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Long Time”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIV13letIk
Kim Richey: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Visit”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BPWKgada4
Liz Woolley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Madeleine”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrrMtOEPJY
Megan Bee: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Cannot Look Away”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frS-AXopsnQ
Megan Wren: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The COVID Waltz”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2-2wAFDWg
Nathan Zangmeister: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Taking the Long Way Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2CHeFb_Kw
Nick Vandenberg: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Astronomic Principle, or When You Come Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBLap2HcCw
Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of “My Neighborhood,” previously recorded by Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcuXJdIeoA
Rachel Figley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Trick of the Light”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXqHfxpRYY
Rachel Mousie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Late November”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHh1S9-waY
Scott Minar: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Sorrows of Late Day”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8XRA9PUmg
Steve Zarate: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Early September”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVY6t5zZmM
Todd Burge: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Things I am for You”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGPI43gjqQ
Vincent Trocchia: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRD1DKnRk3Q
William Matheny: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Don’t Know Why”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcmUVpjVhk
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Tony Xenos – Four Miles Around (feat. Bruce Dalzell & Billy Rhinehart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8rwjpM9ZY
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RETELLINGS OF A CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE
Arden of Faversham: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Arraignment, or Poetaster: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Case is Altered: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Catiline’s Conspiracy: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Epicene: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The New Inn, or The Light Heart: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Sejanus’ Fall: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays: Retellings
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Retellings of the 1604 A-Text and of the 1616 B-Text
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Jew of Malta: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2: Retellings
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Inferno: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Purgatory: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Paradise: A Retelling in Prose
The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling
From the Iliad to the Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! A Retelling
George Peele’s The Arraignment of Paris: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar: A Retelling
George’s Peele’s David and Bathsheba, and the Tragedy of Absalom: A Retelling
George Peele’s Edward I: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale: A Retelling
George-a-Greene: A Retelling
The History of King Leir: A Retelling
Homer’s Iliad: A Retelling in Prose
Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose
J.W. Gent.’s The Valiant Scot: A Retelling
Jason and the Argonauts: A Retelling in Prose of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
John Ford: Eight Plays Translated into Modern English
John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Fancies, Chaste and Noble: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lady’s Trial: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy: A Retelling
John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice: A Retelling
John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Queen: A Retelling
John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Campaspe: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Endymion, The Man in the Moon: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Galatea: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Midas: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Mother Bombie: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao: A Retelling
John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon: A Retelling
John Webster’s The White Devil: A Retelling
King Edward III: A Retelling
Mankind: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy: A Retelling
The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Retelling
The Summoning of Everyman: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: A Retelling
The Taming of a Shrew: A Retelling
Tarlton’s Jests: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling: A Retelling
The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Ancient Epic Poems
Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard III: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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ANECDOTE COLLECTIONS
250 Anecdotes About Opera
250 Anecdotes About Religion
250 Anecdotes About Religion: Volume 2
250 Music Anecdotes
Be a Work of Art: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
The Coolest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in the Arts: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in Comedy: 250 Anecdotes
Create, Then Take a Break: 250 Anecdotes
Don’t Fear the Reaper: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes
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- RISE ABOVE.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- ASTONISH ME.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- DO IT NOW.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- GO OUT AND GET ONE.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- WORK A LITTLE HARDER.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno