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“He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.”

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Cecil Frances Alexander

Cecil Frances Alexander was an English writer known for her children's poetry. Her works were popular from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, especially her composition 'Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem', a classic Christmas carol. more

“I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Has Beens Self Artist Quality Gone Pieces Forgiven Could Have Been Defining Symphony Self Deprecation

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“The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.”

Knows Writing Real Genius Be Good Get Away Mediocrity Real Genius

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“The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.”

Childhood Reader Composer Biographies Prelude Fugue

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“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”

People Believe Running Evil Cups

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“I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.”

Feels Pain Suffering Order Eternal Shots

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“People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.”

People Art Silence Broken Silent

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“I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Clear Threat Sticks Rejoice Fifth Muttering

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes - tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm.”

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