Aunt-of-the-heart Joyce Cooper introduced me to Song to the Evening Star, from Wagner's Tannhauser. Still takes the heart right out of me!
Puts me in mind of a cousin's wedding. Her pastor refused to let her use The Wedding March on the grounds it came from a "pagan opera." The minister confused the story of Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail - can't get more Christian than that! - with Wagner's Ring cycle. What he should have protested on the grounds of is that the music is NOT the wedding processional, but was used as the newlyweds headed to their bridal chamber.
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