Music to bring some beauty back into this world...
After the Kennedy assassination, Leonard Bernstein penned the following words:
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
To bring some beauty back into the world after a week of darkness, I offer this recording of a fairly new composition called "Lux: The Dawn from On High." (Lux is latin for light.) The composer is a young man named Dan Forrest, and I believe that we will be studying his music in 200 years much like we study Bach and Beethoven.
I've had the privilege of conducting his "Requiem for the Living," and it is one of the most memorable experiences of my career.
February 16, 2018, 06:11 PM
TheFrontRange
Thank you for sharing this - this is excellent!
"The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza
February 16, 2018, 06:33 PM
Jim Shugart
Awesome.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
February 16, 2018, 08:58 PM
ugeesta
I enjoyed that. Thank you for posting this.
We will never know world peace, until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye
Liberals are like pussycats and Twitter is Trump's laser pointer to keep them busy while he takes care of business - Rey HRH.
February 17, 2018, 03:01 PM
Cliff
Damn. That was great to listen to while sipping on a double Monkey Shoulder on the rocks. Thank you Maestro.
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
--Sir Winston Churchill
"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
--James Earl Jones
February 18, 2018, 03:02 PM
roberth
That was wonderful! Thanks!
February 18, 2018, 03:48 PM
TwoRivers
Very nice. Thanks for posting this Maestro.
February 22, 2018, 01:21 PM
TheFrontRange
I’ve enjoyed this so much, I purchased the selections via iTunes. I’m going to check out the composer’s “Requiem for the Living” next, Maestro.
Thanks again for sharing this.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza
