Archives for April 17, 2017

George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, set to Bach’s Two-Violin Concerto. This 1966 performance, originally telecast by the CBC, features Suzanne Farrell, Marnee Morris, and Conrad Ludlow:

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

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws
And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
The river to the river-bed withdraws,
And altered is the fashion of the earth.

Horace, “Diffugere nives” (Odes, IV.vii, trans. A.E. Housman)