violinfemmes

THE CRITIC AS ARTIST. Oscar Wilde, 1891

“dark extends itself, I breathe it in, something cruel or casual, something kind,” — Jill Jones

Dmitri Shostakovich in 1957, by Nicholas Tikhomiroff.

the screen tests at the andy warhol museum made me look mysterious and moody but really i’m just loud and melodramatic

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C major, Movement III

And this wasn’t an isolated incident. Another of Beethoven’s friends, Antonie Brentano, a woman given to deep depression, said that Beethoven would come to visit without speaking a word. He’d just sit at the piano outside her room and improvise for a few hours before silently leaving again. He was “telling her everything and bringing comfort,” she said.

me: octaves