Archives for October 30, 2017

Emanuel Feuermann plays Antonín Dvořák’s Rondo, Op. 94, and David Popper’s “Spinning Wheel,” accompanied by Theodore Saidenberg. This short, shot in 1939, is believed to be the only surviving sound film of Feuermann playing cello. He died in 1942 at the age of thirty-nine:

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

“Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them.”

Thornton Wilder, Theophilus North