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Life & Notes

This Episode’s Music: Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Written
January 1, 2009
Length
136 words, about 1 min

http://www.musicec.com/videmo/1442/BK_Handel_The_Arrival_of_the_Queen_of_Sheba.mp3

New year, new atmosphere; looking ahead to a new era, I had originally wanted to find a piece of New Age music to suit the occasion, but as luck would have it I couldn’t find one appropriate, so I’ll just turn to a classical piece instead—but in fact, in all sorts of ways, it suits my present mood rather well.
The anecdote of the Queen of Sheba probably goes something like this: the Queen of Sheba heard that King Solomon was quite something, so she traveled a long way bearing spices and jewels to meet him, and posed him many difficult questions to test him……
……the rest doesn’t matter; in any case, just ask me questions, then……

Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.