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When Bach Went Blind: The Charlatan Who Stole a Genius' Last Pages
When Bach Went Blind: The Charlatan Who Stole a Genius' Last Pages
Silence can be a crafted disguise: in September 1964 a sealed diplomatic envelope was taped to a comedian’s leg and carried across the Soviet Union, and the man who never spoke on screen spent his last years desperate to prove he could talk-why would Harpo Marx risk everything to smuggle a message and to undo his own silence?
In this episode, we trace Harpo Marx from an East Ninety-Third Street tenement to vaudeville and international travel, following the choices that made him permanently mute on stage and the sealed…
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