Archives for October 18, 2017

Pablo Casals plays Bach’s First Unaccompanied Cello Suite in 1954 at the Abbaye Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa in Prades, France:

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

“There was really nothing to be done about Ronnie, at least that I could do. He would go on turning a dollar in one way or another until he ended up in Folsom or a mortuary or a house with a swimming pool on top of a hill. There were thousands like him in my ten-thousand-square-mile beat: boys who had lost their futures, their parents and themselves in the shallow jerry-built streets of the coastal cities; boys with hot-rod bowels, comic-book imaginations, daring that grew up too late for one war, too early for another.”

Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die