[ZGuy]

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[EveningStar]

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[MozartLover]

You don’t think anyone could fail to love Mozart, do you?” “It seems hardly possible"

:-)

Most enjoyable.

Thanks for the ping!!

[joanie-f]

Thanks so much for posting this, Zguy.

Steve, I thought you might appreciate this as much as I do.

It takes us to other worlds … a magic that permitted us to turn all our petty human drama into … music that lifted us far above ourselves, and above all mortal and passing things.

I paid my own humble tribute to the master (better said: he touched me, once again, in a manner outside of language’s ability to describe) by listening to ‘Requiem’ in its entirety again today. I listened through Domine Jesu while driving down to the county courthouse on business this morning. The half-hour drive seemed to take but a few minutes (time seems to be measured much differently in that other world mentioned above. :)

I imagine the county treasurer may have wondered why I walked into his office with swollen eyes.

An eternity of unparalleled beauty created in fewer than thirty-six years.

[luvbach1]

Enjoyed that! I've long thought that the sublime music of the masters is likely humankind's greatest achievement, at once high art and appealing to the purest motives and sensibilities in us as it enters directly into our brains via our aural portals. And if the day ever comes that such music is generally unappreciated (and we are dangerously close to that day) it will signal the lack of something essential to human beings as we conceive human beings to be.