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samara's avatar

oh thank you for this essay and for posting the music - i've always loved that poem/song in The Tempest, but had never heard a composition of it. so haunting

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John Ewing's avatar

Beautiful! So meaningful and resonant. We loved the MFAH series, and you've kept us gripped with your first songs. Thank you for your careful thought and heartfelt musings, all precisely communicated.

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Rainey Knudson's avatar

Thank you John!

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Ellen Y. Swain's avatar

Very interesting. I thank you. I read the words and thought about them as I prepare a sermon on the Transfiguration....I read your response with "transmutation," and believe I have an interesting dynamic going on now in my sermon.....we'll see. So, I thank you....P.S. I was not familiar with this Williams piece and disappointed that I did not know of it when teaching Shakespeare!

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