songs for judith
found that the sheer beauty of the voice, its monumental dose of soul, the pain implicit within it, bypassed all my conscious opinions, my critical intelligence or sense of the sentimental,
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
Kathleen Ferrier, whose recordings I had listened to endlessly; one of the first CDs I bought as a teenager, just after I discovered music, classical music I mean, was a recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and three of the Rückert lieder,
Garth Greenwell • Small Rain
“Quickly and easily the pianist's hands move over the keys, her head it seems nodding with the complex play of rhythms, faster and faster. Brighter now and glimmering the notes rise into the dark, chasing, light footsteps. The tense thrilled hush of listeners gathered together around the sound: sharing in silence this one brief consciousness. Heari
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