Baldwins Entertainment has a CD of Concerto
of Deliverance by John Mills-Cockell.

Curious...


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Subject: Atlas Shrugged and Concerto of Deliverance
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:09:14 -0600
From: Monart Pon <monart@...>
To: erin@...



Dear Howard and Karen Baldwin,

I'm pleased to hear that you are producing the movie of Atlas Shrugged.
It will be a great achievement, your movie, very likely to spur on a
significant cultural change.

One important theme of the novel that I hope will be given proper
treatment is the music of the Concerto of Deliverance. It's this music
that Dagny hears (whistled) when she is introduced at the beginning of
the story, and it's this music that helps lead her eventually to Galt's
Gulch, where she hears it directly from the composer. Rand also entitled
one of her climactic chapters (III-6) "The Concerto of Deliverance",
where Hank finally finds his own deliverance.

As Rand described the music:

"She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph.
The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself,
they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to
embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive.
It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open.
It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose.
It swept space clean, and left nothing but the joy of an unobstructed
effort.
Only a faint echo within the sounds spoke of that from which the music
had escaped,
but spoke in laughing astonishment at the discovery that
there was no ugliness or pain, and there never had had to be.
It was the song of an immense deliverance."


You might be interested to know that a few years ago a musical work was
commissioned and produced (by me) to depict, in musical form, Rand's
description of the Concerto of Deliverance. The work, composed by the
award-winning veteran composer John Mills-Cockell, is an expansive
(79-minute), 7 movement, integrated work that evokes the themes of
freedom, adventure, achievement, and joy - with only a "faint echo" of
pain to be heard.

Positive comments to the musical work, from noted Rand scholars,
musicians, and admirers (like philosopher David Kelley of The
Objectivist Center and novelist Erika Holzer), have included these:

"I love the richness and variety of the composition...references many
different musical traditions...a lovely, layered work...playful...deeply
moving, uplifting...richly evocative and flowing outward."

"Charming and innovative...an integrated work...inspiring
melodies...extremely linear...the rhythm and key changes
constantly...chords are arpeggiated throughout...I'm pleasantly
surprised by this piece's ability to seduce me...it speaks to the
universality of the music that Mills-Cockell is able to capture the
attention of someone so happily entrenched in the early music tradition..."

"Every line and timbre breathes with organic character and
individuality...His sense of tasteful rhythm is unerring...He often
sinks quiet melodies deeply into a multi-layered background texture,
giving the music a richness and depth that reward repeated listening...a
fun, multi-hued treat to hear a master in his chosen medium -- and John
Mills-Cockell is certainly such a master."

I've emphasized here the qualities of this superb work so as to
encourage you to check out the CD at
http://www.concertoofdeliverance.com, where music samples and other info
are available. If you are interested, I'd be pleased to send you a
complimentary copy.

Good luck on your project. I hope you'll succeed where past attempts
have failed.


-Monart Pon