Art · Reflection
BENJAMIN BRITTEN ~ THE CRUEL BEAUTY OF MUSIC
11 August 2011
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
Benjamin Britten
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