Archives for August 8, 2018

Galina Vishnevskaya sings the “Serenade” from Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death on French TV in 1970. Mstislav Rostropovich, her husband, is at the piano:

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

“If my anarchic friends will not have rules—they will have rulers.”

G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong With the World