I confess my ignorance. I had long admired the music of Camille Saint-Saëns, particularly the finale to his Organ Symphony, his Carnival of the Animals: “The Aquarium,” and his Danse Macabre. I knew the language of his music, but I was uniformed about his verbal compositions. That is, uninformed until I saw the YouTube version of the Organ Symphony’s “Finale,” published by moltoallegro19 on July 18, 2010. * That’s where I saw Charles-Camille’s statement about his effort in writing the piece. The quotation appears near the beginning of the video, just as the organ builds in both pitch and crescendo: “I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.”
What more could we ask of anyone, but to give everything one has to give to an effort. Like the effort at life, for example. Remember, this is not your practice life. As you compose the symphony of your life, be able to say at its "finale," “I gave everything to it I was able to give.”
*Online at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hopaQjQFUYw Accessed February 18, 2019.
What more could we ask of anyone, but to give everything one has to give to an effort. Like the effort at life, for example. Remember, this is not your practice life. As you compose the symphony of your life, be able to say at its "finale," “I gave everything to it I was able to give.”
*Online at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hopaQjQFUYw Accessed February 18, 2019.
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