Archives for July 24, 2013

Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts the closing sequence of the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, filmed at the Salzburg Festival in 1951:

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

“One often has a misconceived, decorated, even quaint idea of the great actors of our past; it is, as it was in this case, something of a revelation to realize that great acting is always shockingly direct and simple, in the sense that love is.”
Jack O’Brien, Jack Be Nimble: The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director