[Choir] Salmon Rushdie's words...

[Yona Shahar]

Thanks for sharing this Dick & Susan!

Wishing you all the best this Holiday Season, Yona

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 9:36 PM Richard Riley via Choir <
choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:

> I do not know where Rushdie's words come from. (Actually, I do: they
> come from Audrey Coty, a friend of Susan's!)
>
>
> "Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs? Maybe
> it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in the
> world. The note, the scale, the chord; melodies, harmonies,
> arrangements, symphonies, ragas, Chinese operas, jazz, the blues; that
> such things should exist, that we should have discovered the magical
> intervals and distances that yield the poor cluster of notes, all
> within the span of a human hand, from which we can build our
> cathedrals of sound, is as alchemical a mystery as mathematics, or
> wine, or love. Maybe the birds taught us. Maybe not. Maybe we are just
> creatures in search of exaltation. We don't have much of it. Our lives
> are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways
> deficient. Song turns them into something else. Song shows us a world
> that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might
> be, if we were worthy of the world. Five mysteries hold the keys to
> the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the
> contemplations of great art, and being in the presence of death or
> disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song."
>
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