The Magic Flute
I was listening to Mozart's opera and thinking about GB Shaw's famous remark about the music for Sarastro, the High Priest: "It is the only music which might be put into the mouth of God without blasphemy."
There's something comic - doubly heartbreaking - about imagining God's Song would be diatonic.
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