sms@exodus.UUCP (Stephe Sutor) (02/16/84)
In the course of Handel's "Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music" ( commemorating among other things the victory of Alexander over Darius ) the only stirring section was a chorus: "And many men must die [ with loud applause ]" with just the right mixture of heroic pathos and fatality. Imagine the thousands of young men who must die valiantly to create the fame of Alexander ( or A. Lincoln or R. U. Reagun ). Unfortunately the words by John Dryden really were: "The many rend the skies with loud applause; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause." can you hear me major tom stephe sutor here I am sitting in a tin can, far above the seas.