An extremely rare black-and-white single-camera performance film of Mabel Mercer singing Burton Lane’s “Wait Till We’re Sixty-Five” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” shot from the balcony of New York’s Town Hall during a 1974 concert:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for September 8, 2010
TT: Almanac
“To slave, to devote oneself, to have the highest imaginable sense of duty–these were excellent things, things of great merit. Merit–solid worth: it was unavailing against the sudden flash and bang, the inexplicable manifestation of talent. People did not easily forgive it that to you, not to them, had the gift been given.”
William Haggard, Slow Burner