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Saturday, April 28. 2018

"Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren"

The cello piece from the greatest composer and musician of all time plays a major role in Mark Helprin's latest novel,  Paris in the Present Tense. A mythic tale of sacrifice and redemption in death.



Posted by Bird Dog in Music at 15:20 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Just a note that Mark Halperin is the disgraced journalist. Mark Helprin is the author of "Paris in the Present Tense," which is indeed magnificent. Don't you wish you could hear the theme music that the protagonist Jules composed in the novel?
#1 Dan on 2018-04-28 18:52 (Reply)
Yes, I always get the spelling wrong
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2018-04-29 05:00 (Reply)
Beautiful music! I downloaded it from Amazon to accompany my flying videos.
#2 snopercod on 2018-04-28 20:30 (Reply)
I sometimes mistake Mozart for Beethoven, but hardly ever miss on identifying Bach. No one mastered counterpoint as well as he.
#3 Gringo on 2018-04-28 22:28 (Reply)
Nice stuff.Thanks.
#4 RL on 2018-04-28 22:34 (Reply)
If you like Paris in.... try Helprin’s first: Refiner’s Fire.
I first saw YoYo Ma in Houston in the early 1980’s. It was a revelation about Bach and the cello. I’d never seen such joy playing an instrument before.
#5 Annie on 2018-04-29 07:35 (Reply)

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