Spirit transfusion

 I'm overdue for listening, start to finish, to my favorite opera, Weill/Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Probably my favorite work of art. The ending is above, from a recent Los Angeles production, which I flew down to see. It's rarely done, although there is a woman in Portland who has wanted to produce it for decades. A good work of art is like a blood transfusion, a transfusion of the spirit. It's time soon.

"Nothing you can do can help a dead man."