Played RVW's Dona Nobis Pacem this afternoon as therapy. Kept reminding myself that as the Maestro wrote this between the wars (around a century ago now) the idea of peace in Europe must have seemed absurd. Yet even by my long-ago boyhood that peace had emphatically arrived. To think of conflict as the norm in human affairs is a failure of imagination.
Of course, it helps that the music is of itself stunningly beautiful. A living, breathing reminder of what the imagination is for.
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