Clifford Curzon plays Brahms’ D Minor Capriccio, Op. 116/1, on TV in 1959:
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Archives for October 16, 2017
Almanac: Leo Tolstoy on why the world cannot be changed
“There can be only one permanent revolution—a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy, “Three Methods of Reform” (trans. Aylmer Maude)