Kirsten Flagstad and Wilfred Pelletier perform an excerpt from Wagner’s Die Walküre. This clip comes from The Big Broadcast of 1938 and is introduced by Bob Hope:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
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“A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.”
André Malraux, Voices of Silence