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I remember how mystified I was on watching the Sound
Of Music when I was small, it puzzled me where those
lovely songs came from, the idea of composing them
for the movie especially seemed so foreign
On first discovering Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom
of the Opera, another mystery presented itself: Where
did the opera’s Hanniball and The Mute come from,
composing them with real operas to choose from
Seemed just as strange; as a child who only knew a
piano, I could not fathom the mystery of a violin’s
unending sighing - or understand how one note
could continue reverberating ad infinitum
In primary school there was the mystery of sacred
melody, why the hymns we sang in church differed
so much from modern songs; then the even more
titillating mystery of singing
Why did a coloratura soprano differ so much from
an ordinary pop star’s voice; I never asked anyone
pondering the mysteries in silence, enjoying their
magical power, adding them to
The mystery of Easter Island, the Pyramids in Egypt
- even then I knew a mystery should NEVER
be solved!
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