![]() ![]() ![]() But without well-structured text to set, most of his vocal writing becomes directionless and unmemorable, with too many phrases ending in the same mannered way, with a drop of a tritone, sixth, or octave. As yet but knock breathe, shine, and seek to mend That I may rise, and stand, oerthrow me, and bend. ![]() Atomic (about Robert Oppenheimer and the setting off of the first atomic bomb): Batter my heart, three-persond God for youAs yet but knock breathe, shine, and seek to mend That I may rise, and stand, oerthrow me, and bendYour force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.I, like an usurpd town, to another due,Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,But am betrothd unto your enemy Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,Take me to you, imprison me, for I,Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. Mockingbirds resident opera aficionado Ken Wilson offers forth a truly breathtaking moment of beauty: John Donnes plea in Holy Sonnet XIV that grace will break his captive will, set to necessarily inadequate but characteristically gorgeous music by John Adams and sung by bass-baritone Gerald Finley in the Adams opera Dr. The work was later performed at Carnegie Hallin Spring 2008. ![]()
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