“The band was deep in a minuet, a Clementi minuet in C major that Jack and he had arranged for violin and ‘cello, one that they had often played together; and now that he was in it, in it for the first time as a dancer, the familiar music took on a new dimension; he was part of the music, right in its heart as one of the formally moving figures whose pattern it created–he lived in a new world, entirely in the present.”
Patrick O’Brian, The Surgeon’s Mate
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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