29th May Three down


Today has seen the last of three funerals that I have conducted. It has been an emotionally draining time especially trying to compartmentalise each of them, so as to avoid any calamitous cock ups. 

Thankfully they all went well And at two of them we have one of my favourite pieces of classical music, one that I first became aware of when it was chosen to accompany the film Raging Bull about the boxer Jake La Motta. It is of course the beautifully emotive Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. And the bit where the full orchestra sweeps in still hits me harder than any punch to the solar plexus. Enjoy


 
 

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