| Music
is
food
for body and soul, something to quiet a weary psyche after a long and
harried day at the office or a day spent coping with the chores of
mundane life. Whatever I am doing, I return to my
nest at close of day, light a candle and tuck something wonderful
into my sound
system. In the poetic words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "And the night shall be
filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." The music chosen varies from time to time, and it may belong to any one of a number of genres, classical, jazz, new age, folk, Celtic, pagan, blues, and occasionally electronic. These days there is often a chant CD tucked into the player, for chant and plainsong have remarkable powers to soothe, comfort and uplift. Summer is here with its brilliant sunlight, its heat and its greenery, and it is far too hot during the day for working out of doors in the garden, but at the beginning of the day, out I go, attired in caftan, sandals and floppy hat with coffee in hand to spend a few hours working among the tomatoes and the roses. At sunrise, it is the birds who provide the music. |
Conferring With the Moon,
William Ackerman
Shamanic Dream, Anugama Tantra, Anugama Diva, Annie Lennox Shapeshifters, Ubaka Hill The Rose, The Medieval Baebes The Mist of Avalon, Alain Stivell The Mysts of Time, Aine Minogue Hymns to Silence and Enlightenment, Van Morrison The Magic Flute, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (London Classical Players, Dawn Upshaw, conductor) Still on the Journey, Sweet Honey in the Rock The Seasons, Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky (Mikhail Pletnev) Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35, Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky (Leila Josefowicz) Cleaning House, The Uppity Blues Women Le Quattro Stagioni, Antonio Vivaldi (Simon Standage/The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock) |
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Litha/The Summer Solstice, 2008 |
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