“You are eighty-four. You have come a long way and you are moving steadily closer to your death. But today you are in Paris–a real birthday treat! Go to the Bois and stay there until sundown. Enjoy the earth that will soon enfold you. Be happy, at least on this day. You know there is an endless coming and going. An endless dance. How can death frighten you?”
Otto Klemperer, notebook entry, May 1969 (quoted in Peter Heyworth, Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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