[John Isbell]

Hi Michael,

That's a good question, which gave me pause for thought. I guess I'd say three things in answer. One, that it's going to be a string concerto, given the bow and string reference, but that still leaves the hundreds you mention. Two, that this famously was the music from Schindler's List - hence perhaps, "that burn my heart to cinders." But three, and most importantly as I wrote, I was thinking of Wagner's famous essay saying Mendelssohn being Jewish and hence rootless could not have access to true passion. Unlike, say, Wagner. I would argue that the concerto is as "passionate" as anything Wagner ever wrote, so thank you, Steven Spielberg, since to this day, people are influenced in their opinions of Mendelssohn's "depth of passion" by Wagner's antisemitic garbage. Hence perhaps, The Shirt That Won't Come Off.

Cheers,
John