Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Walter Brennan is the guest on This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards. This episode was originally telecast live by NBC on March 30, 1955:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“What makes Puccini a greater composer of operas than, in my humble opinion, a great composer, is that he knows how long it takes a person to cross the room.”
Benjamin Britten (quoted in Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century)