The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
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And yet, a growing chorus is saying all is not well in higher education.
It's all released in one colossal rush during the chorus, when everything about the song (the electric guitars, the drums, the vocals, the confusion and loss of the lyric) locks in and unloads all at once.
This is too bad, because the piece is rarely performed (this was billed as its first full staging in New York in more than 180 years) and is well worth hearing, with spectacular ensemble and chorus pieces and a vigorous story that all lend themselves to more interpretation than they received here.