Gustav Holst "Ode to Death"

When I was in STEM boarding school we had a very poor arts department that was mostly staffed by volunteers who just did their best. One year I did choir because I was in high school and Pitch Perfect and Glee still created a beautiful picture of perfectly imperfect life as a high schooler equipped only by song. Choir was fun and it was pop-songy, but only for one semester. I guess we did fine singing The Black Eyed Peas (not connected to my previous previous post, but wow!) that fall, but I was surprised that the instructor thought we could do choral acrobatics/do opera. I mean most of us were not so.. artistically inclined or interested... That half was awkward, but I came out of it really loving this very song by Gustav Holst— "Ode to Death," which we did about 2 minutes of. I listened to it obsessively for 3 months and never thought about it again. In fact, I just remembered what the composition was called. The story that the music embarks upon juxtaposed with a still image which only really illustrates the first 1/3 of it... Wow. This link is as old as my baby sister and it was marked as watched from 7 years ago, as if I'd never stopped. 

Random addendum— "Gustav" reminded me of "Klimt," which reminded me of a case I read over the ownership of this painting...Victor Gruen had a pretty smart lawyer, and found a way for his son to gift him this painting as a gift upon death but not be burdened with its inheritance tax (valued at $8k at time of litigation). This painting ↓ is an inter vivos gift, not a testamentary one!

I would fight for it, too. [Schloss Kammer on Attersee II]