Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Frank Zappa plays his “Black Napkins” on The Mike Douglas Show, accompanied by the studio orchestra. This episode was taped on October 28, 1976:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (trans. E.F.J. Payne)