[Oe List ...] FW: The Singing Revolution - link

[Jack Gilles]

Dear Colleagues,

I watched the trailer for the singing revolution and I was deeply  
moved.  We always knew that singing was the key to what ever success  
we had as a movement.  It is the vehicle of collective spirit.  I  
opened a book of poetry this morning during my hour of personal work  
and this is the poem that was on the page when I looked.  I thought  
you would all enjoy it.  It speaks to what this movie on singing is  
all about.  I thought I would share it with you.

To Music

Music: breathing of statues.  Perhaps:
silence of paintings.  You language where all language ends.  You time
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Feelings for whom?  O you the transformation
of feelings into what?--: into audible landscape.
You stranger: music.  You heart-space in us,
which, rising above us, forces its way out,-
holy departure:
when the innermost point on us stands
outside, as the most practical distance, as the other
side of the air:
pure,
boundless,
no longer habitable.

Rainer Maria Rilke


Grace & Peace, and Music

Jack


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