| re: Make Our Garden Grow Is One of the Most Beautiful Pieces of Music Ever Written. Just Saying. (nm) | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:36 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Make Our Garden Grow Is One of the Most Beautiful Pieces of Music Ever Written. Just Saying. (nm) - WWriter 07:03 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| I think it is one of the most gorgeous pieces of music, and when I need an encounter with the sublime (in Longinus' sense), I listen to the OBC version--the swelling chorus, the solo voices of Cook and Rounseville. I would argue that it is the right end for the show for which it was written--if not quite the off-hand ending of Voltaire's novella. The Bernstein score is an enlargement of the Voltaire original, so this anthem fits his transformation of it. I've often thought it is what I would want played at a memorial for myself--though I suspect my life has not earned the dimensions the song achieves. But it's a lovely dream. |
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