Archives for July 23, 2018

Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony perform Gabriel Fauré’s “Mort de Mélisande” (from his incidental music for Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande in concert in 1959. This performance was originally telecast by Boston’s WGBH-TV:

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

“When you call a man ‘too idealistic’ you admit that he has found the road, and in the end you will always be dragged after him.”

G.K. Chesterton, “The Right Way to Denounce Things” (Illustrated London News, June 29, 1912)