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It’s funny the things which remind us who we are.
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With tears still in her eyes, Audri said, “I hurt, val. I don’t like it. This all has me scared. I… I don’t think I can make it through seventeen years.” As she began picking up Audri’s bells to hand it to her, Val said, “we’re not going to be on this ship for seventeen years. Not only for our sanity and body safety, but also for you and Nick! And for Jo! I don’t know how we’ll escape, but we will. Even if we have to do it with our last ounce of breath. Come on! Remember who you are, Audr!! Ring the bells!” Audri takes the bells and, with tongue lolling, rang them: dong! dong! dong! dong! dong! dong! dong! Val said, “are you trying to make yourself even more sad? What was that?” Audri said, “the slow movement from Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto. I was trying to express how I felt.” Val said, “well, if you weren’t feeling depressed before, I imagine you certainly are now.” Audri smiled slightly and said, “I thought it was romantic with a tinge of mourning before rising in glory.” Val said, “I sense in the Venn Diagram of that and ‘depression,’ there’s some overlap.”
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Bohemian Rhapsody would have been more uplifting.
Rising morning glory, eh? 😉
I’d say she nailed it.
I don’t remember the tune, but the name rings a bell.
Thanks to this page I’m now listening to Aurro Bernstein’s Beethoven Piano Concerto #4 before my morning conference calls get started. Might be the first time I’m hearing this, and it really is amazing what beautiful music does to emotions. You can’t logic it – it just is, in the moment.
Agreed. For me, I embark on a difficult task with Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, the ‘Leningrad,’ 2d movement, Moderato (poco allegretto). Shell me, burn me, starve me, I will survive, and I will prevail. My foes will not.
I’m somewhat surprised that making that much noise during a rest period isn’t punishable by being put immediately back to work…