Bernstein: Serenade After Plato's Symposium

[Bluebear]

Just heard the piece for the first time ever... (Joshua Bell)...

I often find pieces of music that I had absolutely awareness of and wish I had discovered them sooner. So little time, so much music... I guess I look at it as buried treasure. Anyone familiar with the piece? The adagio (Agathon) is stunning...

"...for he walks not upon the earth, but in the hearts and souls of both gods and men, which are of all things the softest; in them he walks and dwells and makes his home. Not in every soul without exception, for where there is hardness he departs, where there is softness there he dwells...and at the touch of him everyone becomes a poet, even though he had no music in him before."