Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Donald Gramm and Richard Cumming perform Charles Ives’ “Two Little Flowers,” “Serenity,” and “Charlie Rutlage” on TV. The performance, originally broadcast on WGBH-TV in 1965 as part of a series called Aaron Copland: Music in the ’20s, are introduced and discussed by Copland:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms