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to everyone. Such longings are poignantly expressed in Antonin Dvorák’s New World Symphony, second movement, during his reflections on Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha. Also, as another example, a verse from the Norwegian National Anthem is dedicated to the great composer, Edvard Grieg. That verse reflects nature suddenly viewed from the Civilization of the Universe:

“He walked here beside me
the great tone poet.
I heard the water flow with a lovelier cadence.
And, never in the world before,
no matter how often I had trod the same path
had I understood completely
how dear nature had become to me in this place.”

Further, the collaboration of the famous playwright Henrik Ibsen with Grieg on Peer Gynt reflects redemption from the anticivilization by the abiding love of a woman who waited a lifetime to bring the Civilization of the Universe to Peer Gynt. That redemption was also expressed in Sibelius’ s Peer Gynt Suites.

The Requiem by the French composer Gabriel Fauré expresses the happy escape from death in the anticivilization to eternal prosperity in the C of U.

Even the long-ignored and ridiculed composer César Franck1 presents examples of C of U music as do “heavenly” Mozart, Beethoven, and other wide-scope integrating composers.

Sibelius and his Finlandia were inspired by nature, freedom, and businessmen.

And, who was not taken beyond this world by Stanley


1Franck’s other-world work was recognized, decades after his death, by Marcel Proust, the famous French author of the 13-volume, Remembrance of Things Past. Listening to Franck’s music, Proust transported himself out of this anticivilization to write about “another world”.

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