Tag: Enigma
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Elgar the Enigma
This is an invitation to revisit two sublimely beautiful and meaningful pieces of Elgar’s music. One is mostly misunderstood, while the other is uniquely revelatory. First is “Nimrod” from his ‘Enigma Variations’. Let’s un-attach it, briefly, from the November Cenotaph observance, where It seems ‘custom-built’ to fit the remembrance of Great Britain’s part in two…
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Elgar and Friendship and Love
Everyone (even if at first they don’t know they know it), knows the ninth variation in Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme, “Enigma”. It’s played every November, on Remembrance Sunday, at the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London. It has therefore become associated ‘in the public mind’, (assuming there is such a thing), with remembrance of…
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