Archives for July 10, 2017

“Street Scene,” a wordless vignette created and directed by Ernie Kovacs. The soundtrack is an excerpt from Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. This clip comes from Kovacs on Music, which was originally telecast on NBC on May 22, 1959:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Every one of the great charismatic leaders of this century ended up a maniac. He destroyed everything and finally himself—in Stalin’s purges; in Hitler’s ‘final solution’; in Mao’s ‘Revolution.’”

Peter F. Drucker, The New Realities