BRAVA!!!!!! Marilyn Horne!!! What a treat to hear this unmistakable, wonderful contralto voice! Thanks! Miss Horne is my age, and is still with us! God Bless Her!
Today I have heard that the first woman I really loved has gone already a month ago. I wish I had behaved in a different way. Now I know what I have really lost.
If you are with me, then I will go gladly
unto [my] death and to my rest.
Ah, what a pleasant end for me,
if your dear hands be the last I see,
closing shut my faithful eyes to rest Yes it mentioned death but it is about deep love and very appropriate as a wedding song-not to mention how haunting and eternal it sounds.!!
When I heard this the first time, years ago -I was so deeply touched. A few days ago, when my grandmother died, we find out that she want Horne with thois song at her funeral...Now I sit here, drink Gin & Tonic and think about Grannie..
Whereever you are now- I love you