“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies
and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that
something is right in the world."
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
“Artists devote their lives to the creation of beauty for the rest of us to enjoy.”
COMPOSER
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS
Sinfonia Antartica
Vaughan Williams provided the music for the film Scott of the Antarctic in 1947, and was so inspired by the subject that he incorporated much of the music into a symphony he called Sinfonia Antartica ("Antarctic Symphony") his seventh Symphony.
Prelude:
Andante maestoso
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,
To defy power which seems omnipotent,
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent:
This … is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,
This is alone life, joy, empire and victory.
Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
Scherzo:
Moderato
There go the ships
and there is that Leviathan
whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein.
Psalm 104
Landscape:
Lento
Ye ice falls! Ye that from the mountain’s brow
Adown enormous ravines slope amain—
Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,
And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts!
Coleridge: Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni
Intermezzo:
Andante sostenuto
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Donne: The Sun Rising
Epilogue:
Alla marcia, moderato(nontroppo allegro)
I do not regret this journey; we took risks, we
knew we took them, things have come out against
us, therefore we have no cause for complaint.
