The music matters…
When a church choir works to make sure that everyone is singing the same rhythms and notes, it’s because… the music matters…
When vocalists and instrumentalists work on phrasing, dynamics, cutoffs, entrances, it’s because the music matters…
When you feel moved by a song, a symphony, live or recorded, the music matters….
When music makes you cry or evokes happy memories, the music matters…
When the silence of the end of a musical piece affects you, it’s because the music matters…
To musicians everywhere, in every performance that you give, never forget that the music matters….and to give that performance everything you have..because the music matters….
The music matters….
@AndySylvester Yes, it sure does, more than most things for me!! Thanls for the links, Andy!
@JohnPhilpin Looks like a terrific film. Unfortunately I don’t speak the language & they don’t include subtitles in these films. I think he said, “I’m mad as hell & I’m not gonna take it any longer.” Am I close? Was it Thatcher he was mad at?
@Ron it’s a great film set to the backdrop of the coal mines being shut down yes by Margaret Thatcher , I would hope you can get a DVD with English subtitles at least, my mother in law is very hard of hearing so am use to ensuring we can get subtitles but Amazon is pretty unhelpful in its details in this regard, a couple of searches seem to suggest that subtitles are available for this film
@AndySylvester Absolutely it does but it can come from so many places in so many ways (see @patrickrhone‘s thought on the wind.)
But the silence is just as musical, just as spiritual and that linkf ro “The Sound of Silence” is wonderful.
Thanks for posting.
@AndySylvester Absolutely it does but it can come from so many places in so many ways (see @patrickrhone‘s thought on the wind.) But the silence is just as musical, just as spiritual and that link for “The Sound of Silence” is wonderful.
Thanks for posting.
@colinwalker My dear friend and mentor Ando writes mostly about silence and it’s importance. My message about the wind arose out of her Quiet Notes spiritual journalling course I’m a participant in.
@colinwalker Thanks Colin. I’m glad you enjiyed my Sound of Silence. It was the very first piece I ever published as a writer and one of the most popular. It was a very pure statement made by the orchestra that night. The entire audience was in an excited, positive state of peace at the end. I believe there is a video of a performance by Abbado with an even longer conducted silence at the end. It might be this one, but it’s not available to be viewed in the US. Sigh.
@JohnPhilpin John, thanks for sending this YouTube link, I liked the speech!
@colinwalker thank you for the link to Patrick Rhone, I appreciate it!
@patrickrhone I am going to listen to Ando’s podcast, thanks for sharing!
@Ron you are welcome! Your post on silence is a classic that needed to be shared again…
@AndySylvester Awww, thanks again. Maybe I’ll make a list of my classics. Ha ha. Maybe a new one on the way soon. 😉
@Ron yes, looking forward to that new classic soon!
@Ron It was such an evocative piece – the notion that orchestra and audience were, for that brief period, joined in the performance of silence is joyous and the reader is drawn in and can almost hear the gasps as everyone remembers to breathe. Marvellous!