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Pleading the Fifth!
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We’ve
recently been listening to Beethoven and reading a lot, and
started to meditate on music in literature....In
Howard's
End,
Beethoven (a composer E.M. Forster turns to again and again) is
seen as universal, overcoming all barriers...
'It may
generally be admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most
sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
All sorts and conditions are satisfied by it.'
And then, one
inevitably thinks of Lawrence Durrell’s sweeping and lyrical
The
Alexandria Quartet.
Apparently Durrell was very much taken with Beethoven’s.... |
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