Yo-Yo Ma's new Bach video is the most beautiful thing we've ever seen - Classic FM Classic FM shr.gs/4ed0KuN

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"The spontaneous breaking into song and dance seems so natural and instinctive a part of childhood. It is perhaps the medium through which children best express the inexpressible." Sendak on music: brainpickings.org/2019/10/17/the…

"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment." On this day in 1963, in a eulogy for Robert Frost, JFK delivered one of the most beautiful and powerful speeches ever brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk…

Legendary cellist Pablo Casals, at age 93, on creative vitality and how working with love prolongs your life brainpickings.org/2014/12/03/pab…

"We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away —" Emily Dickinson's stunning ode to resilience, animated: brainpickings.org/2018/09/18/we-…

HG Masters Editor-at-Large ArtAsiaPacific talks on art writing for young writers and the role of publications in the creative industries.