Archives for June 1, 2011

Peggy Lee sings “When the World Was Young” on The Judy Garland Show in 1963:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

“Too much can be read into an artist’s biography. I was not immune. In fact, I’d made rather a career of it. History books love these kinds of necessary development. Schoenberg’s story (and its ghoulish fictional alternative) could support a biographical argument about his work one way or the other. The jigsaw fits together easily enough: forget the pieces left in the box.”
Wesley Stace, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer