Archives for July 1, 2019

Russell Oberlin, the great American countertenor, sings Purcell’s “Music for a while” in an undated CBC telecast from the Sixties, accompanied by Douglas Williams on harpsichord. The spoken introduction is in untitled French, but the performance is in English:

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

“There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

Francis Bacon, “On Beauty”