“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
- William Shakespeare, King John
Oh, the Lilies here at Dolores Delargo Towers (in pots, just outside the back door) have been such a joy of late...
I think these majestic purveyors of the most heavenly scent deserve a beautiful piece of music to accompany them.
How fitting that today would have been the 90th birthday of the great conductor Kurt Masur - and here he is conducting a sublime piece from Antonin Dvořák to soothe our troubled minds:
Kurt Masur (18th July 1927 – 19th December 2015)