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.
