Archives for July 14, 2010

Jean-Pierre Rampal plays the slow movement of Francis Poulenc’s Flute Sonata, accompanied by the composer:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

“I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up