Classical Music
- Benjamin Britten – Nocturnal after John Dowland, op. 70, for guitar
- Nikolai Karetnikov – Symphony No. 4
- Francis Poulenc – Sept répons des ténèbres
- Giacinto Scelsi – String Quartet No. 3
- Igor Stravinsky – Abraham and Isaac
- William Walton – Variations on a Theme by Hindemith, for orchestra
- Wang Xilin - Yunnan Tone Poem
- Iannis Xenakis – Eonta
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)