Klarinet Archive - Posting 000467.txt from 1999/09

From: "David Smith" <david-patty@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lecture schedue
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:56:11 -0400

Dear Jennifer,
there is nothing at all wrong with with feeling full of awe at the
mathematical perfection of our universe. And I certainly do not think it is
inaccurate to call this a religious feeling. Many of the most spiritual of
musicians and composers were those who percieved a certain order in the
world around them and set to create and develop their own worlds in the
works they wrote and performed.
Additionally, I feel that religion has certainly gotten a bad name in our
modern world. We all to often think of machete-armed, scripture- wielding
fanatics, bent on twisting great teachings to suit their own frenzied
desires, and forget the spiritual voice that permeates the works of
composers from Corelli, Bach and Buxtehude to Debussy, Bruch, Ives and
others; spirituality is not a no-man's land of magic mixed with brimstone,
but a reality based in the order we have before us.
I feel some of my most spiritual moments have been in the practice room,
when I have finally succeeded in imposing an order which transforms notes
on a page to a phrase which communicates an idea, more or less abstact, but
is definitely an existent entity, over and above that which represents it on
paper.
I get into this stuff too.
Patty Smith

" It is okay to ask why. Just don't stop asking before you get an answer."

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