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

[JOHN L. EPPS]

If art transforms the dimension of space, maybe music is what transforms
the dimension of time.

John Epps

Quoting "McCabe, Diann A" <dm14 at txstate.edu>:

> Can't get much better than Rilke.
>
> Also, I am remembering this quotation from Walter Pater:  "All art
> constantly aspires toward the condition of music."
>
> I look forward to seeing this film.
>
> --Diann McCabe
>
>
> On 4/25/08 10:57 AM, "Jack Gilles" <icabombay at igc.org> wrote:
>
> 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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