NPR plus my Aunt= blog post
I actually heard the interview on npr, and now my aunt says Sr. Catherine, one of her fellow Dominican nuns, has just read his book Musicophilia.
I am glad she reminded me of it, because I wanted to read the book after hearing his interview. The author is described as "as crazy as they come", so that's got to be a good thing.
People "march to the beat" of their own drummers, and activists try to "orchestrate" change, and having "a heart", the symbol of love, implies feeling the beat...We try and live in "harmony" with nature. Life moves in rhythms, from seasons and months and weeks and days, each moment filled with speech cadences, and natural sounds (whether that be car horns or croaking frogs) filling up our silences. Meditation and the sound of silence can be equally important to being grounded, clear, focused, happy. Our moods are easily expressed (and changed) by music, and we often have music playing in our heads. Sometimes, it's hard to shake a tune. Our lives have soundtracks. Musicians think differently. And music, in turn, affects our state of mind, beyond simply mood. Here! Hear! Music holds power!
I look forward to "hearing" (maybe I can get it on tape/cd?) how music, both somber and ecstatic, sometimes both, is interpreted by this talented individual.
It was judged one of the top books of 2007.
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