Concerto of Deliverance
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"Concerto of Deliverance" is the name of a piece of music created in 2004 by the Canadian composer, John Mills-Cockell, based on the description of such music in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Mills-Cockell's Concerto of Deliverance is a seven-movement work (of 1 hr. 19 min. duration) for instruments and voices, including violin, clarinet, soprano, and children's choir. It was commissioned as a tribute to the Centenary of Ayn Rand's birth on 1905-02-02.
Rand's description:
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.
