Thursday 20 February 2020

Music for Midnight.

I remember once remarking on the melancholic, midnight sound of the viola. Rarely have I heard it in such fine voice as in this piece called Benedictus by Karl Jenkins. It's hardly surprising that people associate it with funerals, since death is, after all, the peaceful midnight of a life.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well
~Macbeth on the man he's just murdered

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