Outcompete God to everyone. Such longings are poignantly expressed in Antonin Dvoráks New World Symphony, second movement, during his reflections on Longfellows 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 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 1Francks 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 Francks music, Proust transported himself out of this anticivilization to write about another world. 20 |
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