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Andrew Carlan:
>To me comfort means assurance that no matter how dark things may be,
>movement will change that as surely as night passes into morning.
Brilliant stuff! Andrew There is so much succor in Bach and Mozart and
Beethoven. I remember myself as a young boy of 14 or 15 with rather Die
Leiden von jungen Werther tendencies discovering the Mass in C minor, K427.
It probably saved my life. From the time I heard that long drawn out Kyrie
I no longer felt afraid. How's that for comfort? And shortly after my new
found courage was bolstered by the Eroica. I played it everyday during the
long, lonely months leading up to 'O' levels. My God, What a great time it
was for me, I didn't know it then; to be young and to find such beautiful
music. These days it's Ich habe genug, BWV 82, which I like to translate
as I'm fed up. Don't get the wrong impression. I'm no cynic. Like that
young boy of yesterday I still believe in happy endings.
Tony de Freitas
Trinidad, W.I.
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