The let-down. The loss. However your characters experience it, there will come a time when the conflict snaps the characters’ will in two, and everyone needs a chance to cope.
I stumbled upon Anne Dudley’s album A Different Light in my father’s collection. Like me, he had rather eclectic taste in music. He didn’t always have patience for instrumentals, so I was rather surprised to find this.
“A Different Light” burdens a violin with most of the melody. Strings are all one hears in long, mournful chords. The solo violin seems to be lost in a disconnect from the rest of the strings, dwelling upon its own pain while the rest of the world presses forward, until the final minute–all the harmonies of sadness become one great swell, and then break apart again to fade, and to fade. When plot pauses to deal with loss, cast your characters in “A Different Light.”
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Anne Dudley is amazing. I love her Tristan and Isolde, and her ancient Chorales. This violin solo is so intimate, so lonely. I have never heard this piece.
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And I’ve never heard her Tristan and Isolde. Looks like I’ve got some homework to do. 🙂
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Oh this is something! First I heard her old Christian tunes and did some research, and came across her Tristan and Isolde.
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My library has it! It is now officially on my request list. 🙂
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It is what I really admire in the US – your libraries 🙂
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You and me both!
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That is stunning. Feels like the first rays of sun on a cold misty winter morning.
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Good morning!
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