Archives for November 27, 2013

Fritz Reiner leads the Chicago Symphony in a 1961 telecast of an excerpt from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony:

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

“The most valuable thing I have learnt from life is to regret nothing. Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Narrow Corner