Donnacha Dennehy: A Fatal Optimist

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• Composer
  Donnacha Dennehy
• Publisher
  G Schirmer Inc
• Arrangement
  Ensemble (ENS)
• Format
  Score and Parts
• Genre
  20th Century
• Text

  Composer Note:
  
  Francis Bacon: But I'm profoundly optimistic about nothing.
  
  Melvyn Bragg: How can you be optimistic about nothing, Francis?
  
  Francis Bacon: I can be.
  
  Melvyn Bragg: Why?
  
  Francis Bacon: Just existing for a moment. Existing today makes me optimistic.
  
  Melvyn Bragg: Optimistic about what?
  
  Francis Bacon: Nothing!
  
  (a slightly drunken conversation between the two of them, captured on the South Bank Show)
  
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