Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
The Manhattan Transfer sings Claude Thornhill’s “Snowfall” in concert:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden