All the World’s Mornings
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “Do you have a heart to feel? Do you have a brain to think? 1650. Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, a musician and composer, is left a widower with two daughters, Madeleine and Toinette. He retreats to a small house by the river—a place seemingly outside of time—where he instructs his children in music, spurning every invitation to leave his “court of willows,” even declining an invitation from the King. Especially the invitation from the...