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 As if a sign had been given to me from

the sea 

 Alexander Blok has a memorable and ratherarbitrary image in one of his poems which Iquote above. He belonged to a generation ofseekers and mystics in the wake of theRussian Revolution and in some ways mightbe considered comparable to the late Hippie

generation intellectuals of !urope such as "akob Bronowski in face of the positivism andmarket economics snu#ng out all fantasywhich was to come in the Reagan$%hatchergeneration &ust after.. My Calvary.

%hese antimonies are still with us but ' prompted by unexpected information aboutan unusually creative ecumenical movebetween (estminster and )anterburycathedrals on the one hand* and by anequally unexpected yet small personal

con+ict of no real importance on the other −  Ihave recently been prompted to follow !liot,sbird into some sort of creative garden and

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take soundings -as %horeau might have doneof ice....

%he ice of course in this context is &ust thatwhich ' even in spring ' is prone to clog upthe human heart and set all our enterprisesback to /ero. But there is more.

%he prime reali/ation emerging isunsurprisingly about peace −  and the

 possibilities of diminishing con+ict and humanantagonism. (herever they arise.

(here does this re+ex come from0 %he mythof )ain and Abel is I think very relevant-1hillipa 1earce hints at it with a masterly

economy in %om,s 2idnight 3arden . Afterconsidering the symbolic importance of !lycathedral in this novel and remembering howall the glass there was destroyed and thesculptures dis4gured it was not di#cult toextrapolate this to the modern daydestructions we hear of in Iraq and

 Afghanistan of the very archaeological recordwhich de4nes us as !uropeans 5ear !astern

 peoples and Asians ' a population which is a

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si/eable and signi4cant chunk of the civili/edworld6 a civili/ation obviously to bereduplicated and refocused in the 5ew (orldwhen the time came...And to our in4niteenrichment.

 And since charity begins at home I had toimagine too whence an unexpected andunwelcome emotion arriving at my doorstep '

or rather in these times on my computerscreen ' arose* and I have thus had to beginthe process of reconciliation with an apologyand confession of any weaknesses of myown.. In all circumstances one can but hopefor understanding pardon andforgiveness...%he other is always unknown.

%his will be seen below also in its due place.But music too emerged. I had beenenthused by a Hungarian !aster hymn andhad noted it down ' and musing overnight on

the fragility of human entente hadrecomposed it somewhat and written theresults down. %he composition short as it ismay be viewed here in both score and audio

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version* and there is an organ interlude too*although it the brief insight is less importantfor what it is than what it suggests6 that isto say the world of Robert )arver in whosefootsteps I -in minuscule fashion and forabout six minutes I tread* and it speaks tooabout the needless antagonism of humanswhich comes merely from an inability

amongst many to accept that 3od hascreated us all to coin a musical phrase withunequal temperaments...

7uch temperaments are not present in this777A setting however...

 And thus di8erence deviance new points ofview an upsetting of apple carts is to beexpected. It is not badly meant. It is part ofthe human condition. And how I pray that itsfruits may be understood and toleranceemerge in especially the )aucasus in Islam$

troubled !urope and in the more insidiousand spiteful unsung con+icts lurking underthe surface of many respectable countrieswhom I will not name... )on+icts as trivial as

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mine or as extended as that facing an entiresector of an economy. %hese really are blockson the path to salvation* and they should bedissolved in time* they must not be allowed

 permanently to be...

%here follows a poem an attempt at expiationand reconciliation an artistic response to ahuman dilemma. How to quiet a raging oil

well of hate which had been trodden on purely accidentally0 I might not have beenRed Adair but I could substitute for 3eorgeHerbert on his rest day and so I was for anafternoon twelfth man for one match...%heanswer was emblematic of the task we all ashumans have to face every day to confrontaccept and even ideally love...dierence.3od has made us in myriad ways. %hat is therub.

I add some links. the Brahms Requiem of

course the )arver -which is a new 7istineceiling unknown to most and some 9upr:unknown even to me. I add my score and twoaudios. And of course the poem.

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1rospero should have the last word and Iquote of course the best version of theclosing speech of the %empest that I can 4ndon the web in a video version. %oo bad that itis a shade curtailed. But imperfection is as ithas to be. ;ou will recall it6

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,what strength I have's mine own,

Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,I must e here con!ne" y you,#r sent to Na$les% &et me not,ince I have my "u(e"om got)n" $ar"on'" the "eceiver, "wellIn this are islan" y your s$ell*+ut release me from my an"sWith the hel$ of your goo" han"s:entle reath of yours my sails-ust !ll, or else my $ro.ect fails,Which was to $lease% Now I want

$irits to enforce, art to enchant,)n" my en"ing is "es$air,/nless I e relieve" y $rayer,Which $ierces so that it assaults

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-ercy itself an" frees all faults%)s you from crimes woul" $ar"on'" e,&et your in"ulgence set me free%

2intha egy &el megadatott nekem a sea  

 Alexander Blok egy eml:ke/etes :smeglehettarto/ott egy gener?ci@ keres

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arc?t a po/itivi/mus :s a piacga/das?gfels/v?st ki minden fantasy ami a/ volt hogy 

 &=tt a Reagan$%hatcher gener?ci@ csak miut?n.. a k?lv?ria.

!/ek antimonies is velnk vannak de $ k:riv?ratlan inform?ci@t s/okatlanul kreatv=kumenikus k=/=tt mo/ognak a (estminster:s a )anterbury katedr?lis egyr:s/t* :s egy

ugyanilyen v?ratlan m:gis kis s/em:lyeskonfliktus nem val@di &elent

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Honnan e/ a re+ex s/?rma/ik0 A mtos/ D?in:s Ebel Fgy gondolom nagyon fontos -1hillipa1earce utal r? egy mesteri ga/das?g %om2idnight 3arden. Gigyelembe v:ve as/imbolikus &elent

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hi?nyoss?gok a sa&?t .. minden k=rlm:nyekk=/=tt a/ egyik lehet de rem:l&k ameg:rt:s a kegyelmet :s forgivenes ... Am?sik mindig ismeretlen.

!/ a/t l?tni fog&uk s/int:n sa&?t kell< helyen.9e a /ene is alakult ki. Cn m?r felbu/dulva amagyar hFsv:ti himnus/ illetve tudom?sulves/i le $ :s elmerengve egy :&s/ak?n ?t a

t=r:keny emberi antant ?trtuk kiss: :sr?sbeli eredm:nyek lefel:. A kompo/ci@r=vid ahogy van akkor itt lehetmegtekinteni mind ponts/?m :s audiov?lto/ata* :s van egy s/erv k=/&?t:k tFl* b?r ar=vid betekint:st kev:sb: fontos hogy mi a/amit mint a/t sugall&a6 vagyis a vil?g Robert  )arver amelynek nyom?ban I -a pici divat :sk=rlbell hat perc I fut@fellet* Andit bes/:lis a f=l=sleges antagoni/mus a/ emberekmelyik &=n pus/t?n k:ptelen amonst sok

elfogadni hogy Isten teremtett minket hogy:rme egy hangsor egyenl

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 A/ ilyen temperamentumok nincsenek &elenebben 777A be?llt?s a/onban hogy ...

Cs gy a kl=nbs:g deviancia F& n:/

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Magy kld=tt 5?polyba. Hadd ne

2ivel ott van a hercegs:g kapott 

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!bben csupas/ s/igetre var?/slat*

9e enged&e engem s/alagok 

7egts:g:vel a &@ lapokkal63yeng:d lehelet a ti:d :n vitorl?k 

Di kell t=ltenie kl=nben :n pro&ektsikertelens:ge

2elyik volt hogy =r=met. 2ost a/t akarom

7/ellemek :rv:nyesteni mv:s/etielvar?/sol

Cs a befe&e/:s k:ts:gbees:s

Hacsak nem enyhl ima

 Amely ?tlyukas/t&a Fgy hogy t?mad?sok 2ercy mag?t :s fels/abadt&a a/ =ss/es hib?t.

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alek,sandre blokis ak,vs dasamakhsovrebelida sakmaod t,vit,neburi imi&i misi ert,$ert,ilek,sebs romelits, me ts,itirebas /emot,. igiekut,vnoda t,aobis mad/iebelt,a da mistikisim p,on/e ruset,is revoluts,iis dagarkveultsilad sheid/leba ch,ait,valosshedarebit, gvian Hippie t,aobis inteligents,iasevropashi rogorits,aa iakob Bronowski in

sakhe po/itivi/mis da saba/ro ekonomikisshesunt,k,vis mi/nit, out qvela p,anta/iaromelits, modis reiganis tetch,eri t,aobismkholod mas shemdeg .. ch,emi golgot,a.

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meores me akhlakhans ukve aid/ula  

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qinulis ra t,k,ma unda am kontek,stshimkholod rom romelits, $ t,undats,ga/ap,khul/e $ aris midrekileba rom gachedosup adamianis gulis da shek,mnas qvelach,veni satsarmoebis ukan nulovani. magramaris kidev.

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sad am re+ex modis0 mit,i kaeni da abeli mevp,ik,rob d/alian mnishvnelovania -1hillipa

1earce mianishnebs is virtuo/uladekonomikis tom 2idnight baghi. gankhilvisshemdeg simboluri mnishvneloba !ly tad/ariam romanis da damakhsovrebis rogor qvelaminis ar daingra da scupturesdamakhin&ebulia es ar iqo rt,uli gan/ogadebis

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da a/ielebis $ mosakhleoba romelits, arismnishvnelovani da mnishvnelovani natsilits,ivili/ebul samqaroshi6 ts,ivili/ats,iisashkarad gauormagdebat, da kritikuladgaaanali/a akhali msop,lio rots,a dromovida ... da ch,veni usasrulo gamdidreba.

da mas sak,velmok,medo itsqeba sakhlshime mk,onda tsarmosadgenia d/alian

saidanats, moulodneli da arasasurveligrd/nobebi ch,amosvlis ch,emi doorstep $up,ro stsorad am dros ch,emi kompiuterisekran/e $ gach,nda* da me amit, undadaitsqos sherigebis prots,esi bodishis mokhdada aghiareba susti mkhareebis ch,emi .. qvelagaremoebashi sheid/leba magram imedimak,vs gageba shetsqalebis da forgivenes ...skhva qovelt,vis uts,nobia.

es ik,neba k,vemot, aseve t,avis gamo adgili.magram musika d/alian gach,nda. me ukve

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shedegebi k,vemot,. shemadgenloba moklerogorts, es aris sheid/leba ch,ait,valos ak,orive k,ula da audio versia* da ar aris organointerlude d/alian* miukhedavad imisa rommokle rist,visats, naklebad mnishvnelovaniara aris vidre is gvt,ava/obs6 rom vt,k,va  msop,lioshi robert )arver romlis kvaldakval I-in mi/erulia modis da daakhloebit, ek,vsi

tsut,i me tread* andIt saubrobs d/aliandaakhloebit, ua/ro antagoni/ms adamianebiromlebits, modis mkholod uunaroba amonstbevri miighos rom ghmert,ma shek,mnach,vent,vis moneta musikaluri p,ra/aut,anastsoro temperamenti ...

aset,i temperamenti ar aris am sssagaremoshi t,umts,a ...

da shesabamisad ganskhvavebagadakhrebis akhali punk,tebi a/rit, p,avoritivashlis carts aris mosalodneli. es ar aris

ts,udad nishnavda. es aris natsili adamianismdgomareoba. da rogor vlots,ulob rom misinaqop,i sheid/leba iqos gagebuli datolerantobis gamoch,ndes gansakut,rebit,

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kavkasiashi islami$sheshp,ot,ebuliaevropashi da up,ro m/akvruli da spitefulunsung konp,lik,tebis imaleba k,vesh

 /edapir/e bevri pativsats,emi k,veqanaromelsats, me ar asakhelebs ... )on4ctstrivialuri rogorts, ch,emi da rogorts,gagrd/eldes rogorts, rom tsinashe mt,elisek,toris ekonomika. es namdvilad aris blokad

g/a khsna* da mat, unda daishala dro* isini ar unda miets,es mudmivad unda iqos ...

shemdegnairad poema mts,deloba expiationda sherigebis mkhatvruli reponse adamianisdilema. rogor tsqnar md/vinvarebs navt,obiskargad sid/ulvilis romelits, ukve t,elavstsminda shemt,khvevit,0 me sheid/leba arqop,iliqo Red Adair magram me verch,aanats,vlebs &or& herbert misi dasvenebisdghes da ase viqavi dghis meorenakhevarshi twelth kats,i ert,i match,i ...

 pasukhi iqo simboluri amots,ana ch,venqvela rogorts, adamianebs ak,vt, pirispirqoveldghe daupirispirdes miighos da kidevidealurad siqvaruli ... ganskhvaveba.

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ghmert,ma gaaket,a ch,vent,vis myriad g/ebi.es aris rubls sheadgens.

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 poterpit neudachu

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Dotoryy dol/hen byl ugoditK . %eperK ya khochu9ukhi dlya obespecheniya iskusstvoocharovyvatK I moye okonchaniye otchayaniya ;esli ya ne budet osvobo/hden ot molitvy Dotoryy pron/ayet tak chtoby ona napadayet sama po sebe i 2iloserdiye osvobo/hdayetvse nedostatki .

Dak vy i/ prestupleniy budet pardonKd bytK 1ustK vasha sniskhoditelKnostK osvobodi menya.

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 ALL FLESH IS AS THE GRASS

In memoriam of a Saint whose relic lies at

Esztergom...

In 1844, Tischendorf, by then nominally a Privatdozent

at Leipzig (his reading of the overwritten Biblical text of

the Ephraemi manuscript, previously thoughtirrecoverable, had won him considerable renown), but in

fact out in the field and looking for evidence, visited the

monastery of St Catherine on Mt Sinai. In a

wastebasket of discarded papers to be used as fuel for

the monastery oven, he happened to find forty-threeleaves of what he recognized (there is something to be

said, in this business, for educating one's powers of

recognition) as a copy of the Septuagint version of the

Old Testament, written in early Greek script. The monk

in charge cheerfully informed him that two basketloadsof such discarded leaves had already been fed to the

oven.

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(Gallery of Philiogists, University of

Massachusstts, paragraph 2 :

https://www.umass.edu/wsp/philology/gallery/tisch

endorf.html)

 Alas, my words, no harm (you know me!) meaning

Loyal Wolsey’s esteem knocked aft, or else learnèd

More was not so sweet as ‘twas before;

Now Thames threatened to run with blood

 As even the Tiber, which Horace maybe misunderstood

In days of yore. My prick’dness knowing,

Chafed however his even more. All England

a keg and ready to alight like Transcaucasian

nomads or Carpathian hordes; or even when noble

Thomas before, let slip a discontent at the king’s

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crowning, and had his pate slit in the steep ambulatory,

Windows glowing in the purple dusk.

Nay, friend, come back and in the choir

Sweet unction of the censer take:

Kiss, make up, and be at peace: let this be the end

Of our disadvantage and (who knows?) maybe

This paltry dispute to mend our liege gave outpour’d blood

 At the golden end of the medieval images’ flood

 At Canterbury.

Sajnos, az én szavaimat, nem árt (ismersz!) Jelentését

Loyal Wolsey nagyrabecsülését kopogtatott tat, vagy pedig

megtanulta

More nem volt olyan édes, mint "Twas előtt;

Most Thames fenyegetőzött, hogy fut a vér

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Mivel még a Tiberis, ami Horace talán félreértette

Hajdanában. Saját prick'dness tudva,

Bosszantotta azonban ő még. All England

egy hordó, és készen áll, hogy égve, mint transzkaukázusi

nomádok Kárpát hordák; vagy akkor is, ha nemes

Thomas előtt, elereszt egy elégedetlenség, a király

koronázó, és volt a pástétom hasadékot a meredek

ambuláns,

 A Windows izzó a lila alkonyat.

Nem, barátom, jöjjön vissza, és a kórus

Édes kenete a füstölő venni:

Csók, smink, és légy békességben: ez legyen a vége

 A mi hátrány, és (ki tudja?), Talán

Ez a csekély vita javít a Liege adta outpour'd vér

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 Az arany végén a középkori képek "árvíz

Canterbury.

]^_`b^d,_ ]jk^,̂ ^ (k p me!)

_qkd^

Loyal Wolsey^k]p_^  aft,̂^ qjd

_d, ̂] ̂ jd ,ddp "twas̀ ^q;

^b^ Thames^_^,d_ ̂̀ ^_d] ]]b]

ddp  Tiber,d_p Horace ̂^]`d^

^_ q yore._ prick'dnessp],

Chafed_p^ _] k xd.jk^ ]

keg^ _^ ̂,ddp ̂_^k^]]

_d_^^ ^ ^^] ^q^^;^ _^q^p ,d]^p qd

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d_^] ̂,^ ^^bd _^jdx^ _x]

crowning,^ _] pated pp^d ̂_^d^,

Windows glowing̀ ] purple dusk.

Nay,_d^,^k ^ 

Sweet unction]^^kd] ]^ppb _d]:

dp^,q^d],^ jd] _qkd^:] ^ dd]

k _] ^ (k p]?)

] _qkd ^k^ q^] k Liege_]p^ 

outpour'd]]b]

^_^k dd] dd] q^ ]^] images'̀j^d]

].

samtsukharod, ch’emi sitqva, ar ziani (t’k’ven its’it’ me!)

mnishvneloba

Loyal Wolsey pativists’ema gundi aft, anda sheitqo

More, ase ar iqo tkbili, rogorts’ "twas tsinashe;

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akhla Thames daemuk’ra, rom atsarmoebs siskhlis

rogorts’ ki Tiber, romelits’ Horace ik’neb arastsorad

am dgheebshi yore. ch’emi prick'dness its’is,

Chafed t’umts’a misi kidev up’ro. qvela inglisi

keg da mzad ant’ebuli, rogorts’ amierkavkasiis

momt’abare da karpatebis lashk’art’a; da mashinats’ ki,

rodesats’ ket’ilshobiluri

t’omas adre, neba gadaich’ekho ukmaqop’ileba mep’is

crowning, da misi pate zoli ts’its’abo ambulatoria,

Windows glowing tsels purple dusk.

Nay, megobari, davbrundebit’ da gundi

Sweet unction sak’art’velos sats’ets’khluri miighos:

kots’na, sheadginos, da iqos mshvidoba: es ik’neba bolos

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ch’veni minusi da (vin its’is?) ik’neb

es umnishvnelo dava sheket’ebas ch’veni Liege mists’a

outpour'd siskhlis

amave ok’ros bolos shua saukuneebis images 'tsqaldidobis

kenterberis.

CHRIST IS RISEN, GIVE HIM GLORY

...seems to suggest a four part female choir for its nine

bars, which is obtainable at Mátészalka... The words are

purely optional, and may be taken from the scan. A more

insistent organ interlude, halfway between Dupré and

Eklund, and with a touch of Tournemire, formed itself

almost entirely through the agency of the much improved

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MuseScore program. However I can vouch for the vocal

section, which contains some counterpoint Bach would not

have sniffed at; and perhaps evokes Carver almost

accidentally.

Here, first is theSCAN

[and since we have a bit of blank space, the missing

Dupré link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=7LgZI2VEbMk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgZI2VEbMkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgZI2VEbMkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgZI2VEbMkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgZI2VEbMk

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Page 2 shows the top of a quiet organ interlude not used.

Or at least not used so far... This kind of art work is indeed

provisional and supra-personal...

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This is a source for words if choirs want to use them.

The Musescore Choral MS is like this:

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The mp3 ishere. The organ interlude I am less sure about,

but I like the way it stops suddenly, That is like the end of

the Art of Fugue, when Bach died. Also its suggests vividly,

http://picosong.com/K65p/http://picosong.com/K65p/

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‘Why gaze ye up to Heaven...Ye men of Galilee_ Christ will

return the same way as you saw him go...’

It is worth remarking that the C in the penultimate barreally ought to be doubled by half the Altos for Bar 8. That

would make a richer effect. A sudden fifth part.It is in the

MS.

The quieter organ interlude might have worked well, and is

in reserve, but Musescore helped me to arrive at this:

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mp3 Charmingly, Picosong things it is ‘Purple Sunset:

Sleep Music Lullabies for Deep Sleep’.

I promised you some meat. ‘Behold, All Flesh is As the

Grass’. Words from Isaiah, music by Brahms... This is the

idea of my poem...

This is a nice slow version byKlemperer... It made a huge

impression on me when I was twelve...the timpani are

stupendous...and we sang it at Birmingham. And to round

http://picosong.com/K62dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAtf5o9er8http://picosong.com/K62dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAtf5o9er8

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it off we should really read this fair and charitable

interview with Sir John Tavener nine years before his

death.http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-

entertainment/music/features/john-tavener-god-be-in-my-

head-732873.html

 At the end of this, with the descending B flat Major scale so

simple, it is a hard heart indeed that is not melted almost

to tears. What is the music saying? That all our sacrifices

have been, and continue to remain, worthwhile...

What is the link? Well, Tavener’s twin brother also suffered

from a hereditary heart condition, and was wheeled into

the operating theatre listening to this piece.

The only honest reaction to the Klemperer is to play itagain, it is so explanation defying...

But clearly it, too, speaks of peace...but peace obtained only

after a Titanic struggle.

 And it’s good to here it now, not long after Tavener’s death,

and when his website looks a bit gone to seed and down-at-

heel. His time will come back.

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Finally, just the Dupré and the Carver. After all that, I

cannot say much more. I just give the links.

Carver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LhX0OVkaKU

Dupré:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgZI2VEbMk

Westminster cathedral, which will receive the relic of St

Thomas a Becket back from Hungary in May 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LhX0OVkaKUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgZI2VEbMkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LhX0OVkaKUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgZI2VEbMk

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last bars of ‘All Flesh is as the grass...’

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/3628/willem-vrelant-the-

martyrdom-of-saint-thomas-becket-flemish-early-1460s/

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