The Golden Censer and the First Plagues

The Golden Censer and the First Plagues
Revelation 8

Bernard Levin was one of the greatest London journalists of the last generation. One of his many great loves was music. Levin relished the great moments of classical music, the operas of Mozart and Wagner in particular. He was no stranger to thunderous applause, standing ovations, the celebration of a delighted audience after a majestic performance. But on one occasion, at the end of a recital of Schubert songs by one of the finest singers of the day, he described how the audience simply sat in silence, and then, still in silence, got up slowly and left the concert hall. The spell of the music had been so powerful that nobody dared to break it with anything so mundane as clapping...