When Urania was young/ All thought her heavenly/ With age her eyes grow larger/ But her form unmaidenly

Sunday, July 25, 2004

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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