If music be the food of love, play on

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From Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, 1601:

DUKE ORSINO:
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
‘Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe’er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.

Swallows in Durban

Enjoy “Village Swallows” by  Mantovani and his orchestra. It is a composition by Josef Strauss, one of the Strauss-brothers.

 

This mp3 file sounds sick on my blog! I don’t know if it’s just my blog, if you experience the same, listen to the youtube video instead. On my pc itself there’s nothing wrong with the file…Embedding of the video is disabled, unfortunately…here’s the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnAsJ_uFPn4

hmmm…just what I need…flowers and chocolates!! and on this video…the music of Strauss…”Roses from the South”

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