Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter play Brahms’ D Minor Violin Sonata, Op. 108, in concert at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in 1970:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“I have devoted my life to the preaching of platitudes; it is one of the satisfactions of my life. I like the old things—sun and moon, fresh air, bread and butter, work, friendship, avoiding the occasions of sun Sometimes the devil would say to me, ‘Now, Father Vincent, people don’t like those sorts of things, give them something modern.’ My Guardian Angel says, ‘It isn’t your duty to be modern. You must give something true.’”
Vincent McNabb (quoted in Ferdinand Valentine, Father Vincent McNabb: The Portrait of a Great Dominican)