700 Years of Classical Treasures: A Tapestry in Music and Words

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    “Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man—and after that, praying.”
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    “Et in Arcadia ego.
    [I too am in Arcadia.]”
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    Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)

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    “We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets—we remember only.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “The words too, slow, slow, the subject dies before it comes to the verb, words are stopping too.”
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