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RE: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem performed in Johannesburg last night
I wish we can learn from past mistakes, but it feels to me that we can only learn in the short term and more and more I am afraid to think that we have forgotten how terrible war is these days. This performance is not only beautiful but I hope it will serve to remind us not to ever fall that deeply again.
Thank you for making such a wonderful post and congratulations for your curie vote ^_^.
What an excellent and wonderful post
Thank you so much, @scrawly...I wish it were so, but I have no confidence that humans will ever stop making war on each other, because they can 😢. I do hope that music and the arts have the power to move at least a few people away from worshipping the gods of war to being purveyors of peace. Wilfred Owen's death a week before the Armistice was a shining example of this - his poetry has moved thousands to reflect on "Why war?"...but yet, his light was extinguished too early by war. Nunca mas.