Surely in music there had never been a more beautiful, a more profound evocation of tranquillity and Arcadian peace, spun out in music of incomparable freshness and perfection of gesture and pace. There have been only those two interruptions, with their brassy fanfares. What follows is a rending scream.
Surely, there had never been more peaceful music.
What follows.is a rendering scream.
Richard Wagner would call it "the terror fanfare."
