MY SAY: MUSIC HAS CHARMS
On a dreadful rainy night this past Thursday, I trudged to Carnegie Hall to hear the magnificent “Messiah” composed by George Friedrich Handel in 1741, performed by “The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra.” Since I was in high school I have never missed a holiday season performance even if I had to sit on uncomfortable wooden pews in churches or in 1969 when I was nine months pregnant and stood during an entire 137 minute performance.
In William Congreve’s play “The Mourning Bride” (1697) the first line states ” Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”
Truer word were never spoken. I went home in driving rain humming “And He shall reign forever and ever.”rsk
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