Archives for January 21, 2019

Ricardo Montalban “plays” “Fantasia Mexicana,” Johnny Green’s arrangement for piano and orchestra of Aaron Copland’s El Salón Mexico, in Fiesta, a 1947 film directed by Richard Thorpe. Montalban’s playing is dubbed by André Previn:

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

“Suffering is admittedly one of the central problems of human existence; but this is because we have a suspicion that it is all for nothing. If we had a certainty about meaning, the suffering would be bearable. With no certainty of meaning, even comfort begins to feel futile.”

Colin Wilson, Frankenstein’s Castle