Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site exodus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!sms From: sms@exodus.UUCP (Stephe Sutor) Newsgroups: net.music,net.politics Subject: mistaken lyrics: classic mistake Message-ID: <136@exodus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 14:42:13 EST Article-I.D.: exodus.136 Posted: Thu Feb 16 14:42:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 00:55:17 EST Organization: CSO, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ Lines: 17 In the course of Handel's "Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music" ( commemorating among other things the victory of Alexander over Darius ) the only stirring section was a chorus: "And many men must die [ with loud applause ]" with just the right mixture of heroic pathos and fatality. Imagine the thousands of young men who must die valiantly to create the fame of Alexander ( or A. Lincoln or R. U. Reagun ). Unfortunately the words by John Dryden really were: "The many rend the skies with loud applause; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause." can you hear me major tom stephe sutor here I am sitting in a tin can, far above the seas.