DIVINELY INSPIRED:
" 'Ever look at the Passion? Ever hear it?'
'Never.'
'We've a month; we'll scratch the surface.'
It seemed to Monica that they did much more than scratch the surface; she slaved at it, and Molloy even made her study the full score, so that she might have some acquaintance with classical orchestration... Molloy had a cult for the Passion which astonished Monica, for she had not supposed him to be a deeply religious man. 'If the Bible was divinely inspired, so was the Matthew Passion,'said he; 'you've not only to know it note for note and rest for rest—you've to feel it in the furthest depths of your soul.' It was in this spirit that they worked."
– Robertson Davies, A Mixture of Frailties
" 'Ever look at the Passion? Ever hear it?'
'Never.'
'We've a month; we'll scratch the surface.'
It seemed to Monica that they did much more than scratch the surface; she slaved at it, and Molloy even made her study the full score, so that she might have some acquaintance with classical orchestration... Molloy had a cult for the Passion which astonished Monica, for she had not supposed him to be a deeply religious man. 'If the Bible was divinely inspired, so was the Matthew Passion,'said he; 'you've not only to know it note for note and rest for rest—you've to feel it in the furthest depths of your soul.' It was in this spirit that they worked."
– Robertson Davies, A Mixture of Frailties