Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful cano…

Mark Helprin
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Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.433, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.433, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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