Archives for October 29, 2018

Itzhak Perlman and Janet Goodman Guggenheim perform Ernest Bloch’s “Nigun” (from Baal Shem) in concert at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall in 1990:

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

I tell you not for your comfort,
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the sea rises higher.

G.K. Chesterton, “The Ballad of the White Horse”