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Parents
English source:
Virginia Woolf
How beautiful they were, those old people - I mean father and
mother - how simple, how clear, how untroubled. I have been
dipping into old letters and father's memoirs. He loved her:
oh and was so candid and reasonable and transparent . . .
How serene and gay even, their life reads to me: no mud;
no whirlpools. And so human - with the children and the
little hum and song of the nursery. But if I read as a
contemporary I shall lose my child's vision and so must
stop. Nothing turbulent; nothing involved; no introspection.
mother - how simple, how clear, how untroubled. I have been
dipping into old letters and father's memoirs. He loved her:
oh and was so candid and reasonable and transparent . . .
How serene and gay even, their life reads to me: no mud;
no whirlpools. And so human - with the children and the
little hum and song of the nursery. But if I read as a
contemporary I shall lose my child's vision and so must
stop. Nothing turbulent; nothing involved; no introspection.
Composer
Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento (1927 – 2019) was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers. Image © King…
