Friday, April 11, 2008

Please

"S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo."

-Dante Alighieri, La Commedia Divina: Inferno, Canto XXVII.61-66

James Levine

BSO

André Previn

Gil Shaham

Seiji Ozawa

Kurt Masur

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Alan Gilbert

"If I thought that I were speaking to a soul
Who someday might return to see the world,
most certainly this flame would cease to flicker;
but since no one, if I have heard the truth,
ever returns alive from this deep pit,
with no fear of dishonor I answer you . . . "

-Mark Musa

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