Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Leopold Stokowski conducts a studio orchestra in his arrangements of Bach’s Chorale-Prelude “Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott,” BWV 720, and the G Minor “Little” Fugue, BWV 578, in The Big Broadcast of 1937, directed by Mitchell Leisen. He is introduced by George Burns and Gracie Allen:
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“Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night-light; she knew that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, ‘Is this all?’”
Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
“She liked sex very much, but years ago she had learned something about men; most of them are terrified of entailing a burden.”
Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Harry Nilsson sings a solo version of his song “1941.” This performance is an excerpt from The World of Nilsson, originally telecast by the BBC on January 1, 1972:
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“Just as there is nothing more boring than boredom, nothing more exciting than excitement, nothing more lovable than love or hateful than hatred, so is there nothing that arouses interest so much as interest. Interesting people are interested people, and an enthusiasm—be it as thankless as birdwatching or as bizarre as philately—marks out the enthusiast as a source of curious learning and a person with a mind that glows.”
Roger Scruton, On Hunting (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)From 2004:
Read the whole thing here.None of my closest friends in Manhattan knew me when: we didn’t meet until after I’d figured out who I was and what I wanted to become. On the other hand, the friends of our youth present their own problems. They are part of the train of memories that we all pull behind us, the one that grows longer with each passing day, and for that reason harder to pull….
“It seemed to Graham that he had learned nothing in forty years: he had just gotten tired.”
Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Ravel’s “Le Gibet” (from Gaspard de la nuit) on TV in 1975:
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