About music.....Again

It really is true of me. Music has always been my first love. Perhaps, my first friend, my first comforter, my first seducer and my first and lifelong lover.

I watched The Shawshank Redemption this last weekend. (for the gazzillionth time). There is a scene in the movie where Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins) hijacks the prison warders office and plays a piece of music over the prison intercom system. Perhaps the first music some of the occupants have heard in four decades. The scene is touching and the music is truly arrestingly beautiful. I did shed a tear or two.

To borrow a quote from the movie. : Morgan Freeman narrating as the character Red, "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."

For anyone who has the inclination the piece of music played is taken from Mozart's, Marriage of Figaro. It is an Aria titled Duettino - Sull.

To follow shortly, My review of the Eagles new album "A Long Road out of Eden"