On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Sheila Graham wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Karen, I don't know a lot of Charles Ives - what song do the words in your
> signature come from?
>
> > We're sitting in the opera house;
> > We're waiting for the curtain to arise
> > With wonders for our eyes,
> > A feeling of expectancy,
> > A certain kind of ecstasy,
> > Expectancy and ecstasy....Sh's's's.
> >
> > - Charles Ives
It's the second part of "Very Pleasant" from his two-song cycle MEMORIES
(1897).
Karen
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We're sitting in the opera house;
We're waiting for the curtain to arise
With wonders for our eyes,
A feeling of expectancy,
A certain kind of ecstasy,
Expectancy and ecstasy....Sh's's's.
- Charles Ives
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