Hollywood too often goes over the top. The multistringed orchestrations and the heavenly choruses can be, and have been, overdone. But who among us can claim to be consistently surefooted ? Nevertheless, the 1959 film of “Ben Hur” is undoubtedly in a class by itself in the brilliance of its musical accompaniment by Miklos Rozsa, and in particular in the “Hosanna” as Christ dies on the Cross, and His Precious Blood, mingled with the water of the rain, flows from the foot of the Cross , into rivulets and puddles, and streams, into the water cycle, like all water, indestructible, like all water since Creation began, to be part of all life until the end of Time , a wonderful lilting , positive exaltation, in music, of the Baptism of the human race in water and the Blood of Christ , from then and forever a Baptism of the cosmos itself.
Resurrexit, sicut dixit. Alleluia.