"I went to the performance of Mahler's Sixth a few weeks ago"
OAP concession ticket?
"I went to the performance of Mahler's Sixth a few weeks ago"
OAP concession ticket?
Freebie. I'm fucking two of the Second ViolinsOriginally Posted by arsenal
Mahler's sixth symphony would not be a good choice for an OAP. Its last movement is famous for its three musical "hammer blows". Frau Mahler recollected that her husband was using them to depict the way in which life deals a series of massive blows to any individual, with the last of them being the one that "fells him like a tree". Such an intimation of mortality might be enough to finish a sensitive oldie off.
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
Would that perhaps be akin to finding a despised individual had begun posting comments in a Forum thread you had started and considered to be your exclusive property? Asking for a friend
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