The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived … Continue reading Quote for Today: Louise Erdrich
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Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
As soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment, you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
Quote for Today: Iris Murdoch
The idea of attention or contemplation, of looking carefully at something and holding it before the mind, may be conveyed early on in childhood. 'Look, listen, isn't that nice?' Also, 'Don't touch!' This is moral training as well as preparation for a pleasurable life. It need not depend on words, but can also be learnt … Continue reading Quote for Today: Iris Murdoch
A Testament to Motion: The Art of Toots Zynsky
Have you ever created something that made you feel more alive? Amazing things can happen when we follow our passion. Delizioso, Image © Dane Gallery Mary Ann Toots Zynsky, known as Toots, decided as a pre-teen that she was meant to be an artist, beginning her creative life as a painter and sculptor. … Continue reading A Testament to Motion: The Art of Toots Zynsky
Quote for Today: Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. --Aaron Copland Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Yearning for Catharsis: The Transitory Sound and Movement Collective
When we get caught up in evaluating performance, life, and art, become uninspired. How do we refresh our vision? I found my seat in the darkened room. A soundless film was projected upon the bare wall and musicians waited in the darkness at the sides of the space. Soon, low electronic sounds began to enter … Continue reading Yearning for Catharsis: The Transitory Sound and Movement Collective
Quote for Today: Claude Debussy
I wish to write down my musical dreams in a spirit of utter self-detachment. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candor of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and … Continue reading Quote for Today: Claude Debussy
