Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
Felix Mendelssohn
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On This Day
January 25, 1858 – Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” began it’s rise to popularity when it was selected by the daughter of Queen Victoria for her marriage to the Crown Prince of Prussia. The “Wedding March” is one of the best known of the pieces from Mendelssohn’s suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Elysian Waters 