Archives for September 3, 2018

Three brief, undated silent film clips of Maurice Ravel:

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

“He delighted in writing, in the joinery and embellishment of his sentences, in the consciousness of high rare virtue when every word had been used in its purest and most precise sense, in the kitten games of syntax and rhetoric. Words could do anything except generate their own meaning.”

Evelyn Waugh, Helena (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)