| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: brutal desires of a man who is omnipotent, and the Princess, by
plaintive phrases, tries to win her lover back to moderation. The
musician has here placed himself in a situation of great difficulty,
and has surmounted it in the loveliest number of the whole opera. How
charming is the melody of the /cavatina 'Grace pour toi!'/ All the
women present understood it well; each saw herself seized and snatched
away on the stage. That part alone would suffice to make the fortune
of the opera. Every woman felt herself engaged in a struggle with some
violent lover. Never was music so passionate and so dramatic.
"The whole world now rises in arms against the reprobate. This
/finale/ may be criticised for its resemblance to that of /Don
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: recognised him. Before he came out, however, he looked about
carefully to see whether there was any one in sight He came out
unseen and was just closing the main door behind him, when he met
the janitress.
"Were you looking for anybody in the house?" said the woman,
glancing sharply at the stranger, who answered in a slightly veiled
voice: "No, I made a mistake in the number. The place I am looking
for is two houses further down."
He walked down the street and the woman looked after him until she
saw him turn into the doorway of the second house. Then she went
into her own rooms. The house Muller entered happened to be a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: god whatever he looked to for blessings, help, and comfort.
Thus, for example, the heathen who put their trust in power and
dominion elevated Jupiter as the supreme god; the others, who were bent
upon riches, happiness, or pleasure, and a life of ease, Hercules,
Mercury, Venus or others; women with child, Diana or Lucina, and so on;
thus every one made that his god to which his heart was inclined, so
that even in the mind of the heathen to have a god means to trust and
believe. But their error is this that their trust is false and wrong
for it is not placed in the only God, besides whom there is truly no
God in heaven or upon earth. Therefore the heathen really make their
self-invented notions and dreams of God an idol, and put their trust in
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