Archives for August 28, 2017

Edward Villella and New York City Ballet dance Oberon’s solo from George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a 1966 film version of the complete ballet, directed by Dan Eriksen. The score, conducted by Robert Irving, is by Felix Mendelssohn:

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

“The idea that one has long held of a person is apt to stop one’s eyes and ears.”

Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove (trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, courtesy of Daniel Mendelsohn)