Archives for June 24, 2013

George Shearing performs “Lullaby of Birdland” in 1955:

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

“I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.”
George Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War”