Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Miklós Rózsa leads the Pittsburgh Symphony in a suite drawn from his score for Ben-Hur on TV in 1979:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.”
Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh, July 1880