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...Core: Bane or Blessing...
...Carolyn A. Bane...
...librettist exhorts us, too, to "restrain those who fondly court their bane," and scolds those spending their lives "In frantic mirth and childish play/ In dance, and revels night and day..." The music during this mercifully short third section is much slower, perhaps taking its cue from Jennens' admonition that we "Keep...still the same in look and gait/ Easy, cheerful and sedate." This final section is certainly sedate, almost verging even on morose, culminating in the final couplet of the work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite...
...Initially there was a tremendous amount of hope," he says. "Someone is promising you that the thing that you consider the bane of your existence is going to be eradicated or exorcised...
...concern is about what this trend of unmarried motherhood means about our society, our families and our children," Bane said...