Pure music tells no clichéd tale <br />concerning God or love or conquering sword; <br />it is composed in that fair higher scale <br />of consciousness where facts may be ignored. <br /> <br />Opera is music that’s adulterated <br />by literature we call scenario and libretto; <br />like music we should keep our feelings understated, <br />not trading them like merchants in a Venice ghetto. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Edmund White writes about the way he prefers to write to the accompaniment of music in the NYT, June 18,2001 (“Before as Rendezvous with the muse, First Select the Music”) . He writes: <br /> <br />Unlike fiction, music is not about mothers-in-law or failed marriages. Of course opera and ballet and program music can be narrative but only because they are adulterated by literature, the libretto or scenario. <br /> <br />6/18/01,11/6/09<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pure-music/
