Browsing Tag: Song

FOR BEATRICE (INSTRUMENTAL)

“             This song is “For Beatrice”—”The Giver of Blessings”—by whom Dante was inspired, and for whom “The Divine Comedy” is devoted.  It is She that leads Dante into Paradise and shows him where Virgil and Reason cannot go.              Until this song, I never came close to expressing a sound in mind through instrument.  […]

A BETTER WAY

“…it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame.  Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essence—you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance.  Oh!  Come […]