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The Best of All Possible Worlds

by Kile Smith | Mar 24, 2009 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions, String Quartet

The sufferings of the world and the desperation of a hopeless love conspire to drag Candide from naïve optimism to resigned skepticism, yet, even in the face of Voltaire’s ridicule he clings to the belief that this is, in fact, the best of all possible worlds. That...

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