Archives for June 17, 2015

Jascha Heifetz plays the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto on a 1949 episode of The Bell Telephone Hour, accompanied by Donald Voorhees and a studio orchestra:

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

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

George Orwell, discarded preface for Animal Farm (written in 1945, published in 1972)