Dmitri Shostakovich plays an excerpt from the finale of his First Piano Concerto, filmed circa 1940:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for October 20, 2010
TT: Almanac
“She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.”
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer