Endless latin church chants of “eternal rest.” One note soft, repeated, staccato. Another note soft, repeated, staccato. Again and again and again as if that’s all that mattered. Twelve gassed soldiers move slowly, stumbling from left to right. They lightly touch or hold on to each other, the blind leading the blind but not one […]
Botticelli’s twelve angels hold hands in a mystic circle of dance. Handel’s sopranos climb music’s ladder step by step towards the heavens.* Three angels, three men, embrace on earth. Every voice breaks out in a dancing, leaping phrase–“And he shall reign forever”—treated polyphonically while punctuated with energetic, triumphant Hallelujahs. Mary and Jesus painted larger than […]