Archives for August 7, 2013

Mrs. T and I are taking a few days off and going elsewhere. Back on Monday. The usual daily postings will continue until then (when do they not?).

An excerpt from a 1980 Gloucester Cathedral performance of Britten’s War Requiem. The soloists are Galina Vishnevskaya and Peter Pears:

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

“The charm of the past is that it is past, but women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray