Vladimir Horowitz plays his own arrangement of Franz Liszt’s transcription for solo piano of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse macabre. This recording was made in 1942:
Archives for October 31, 2017
Lookback: music that makes me happy
From 2007:
I’ve always found music to be one of the most potent means of attitude adjustment known to man, and now science has proved it. Ha! All of which inspires me to pass along this list of things to which I listen whenever I feel the urgent need to upgrade my mood….
Read the whole thing here
Almanac: Aldous Huxley on happiness
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
Aldous Huxley, “Distractions—I” (from Vedanta and the Western World, ed. Christopher Isherwood)