Archives for December 28, 2016

Arturo Toscanini leads the NBC Symphony in a performance of Rossini’s William Tell Overture, originally telecast from Carnegie Hall on March 15, 1952:

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

“One of the most disconcerting, unpleasant, and sordid aspects of life is the awareness that nearly all of us find an evil deed more exciting than a good one.”

Josep Pla, The Gray Notebook (trans. Peter Bush)