As an aside, I'd like to recommend another piece of music, particularly while driving:
Steve Reich's "Music For Eighteen Musicians", a kind of all-enveloping musical koan which provides, for me anyway, the invaluable power to re-experience moments of my life with a distant, but not remote sympathy... Simple joys and complex tragedies seem to distill into a single wine, a tart and cold and acidic wine, but delicious nonetheless, and well worth the drinking. Driving home from Christmas dinner I listened to it very loud, and it did me good. I was even able to properly grieve, not for my dead, but for myself, who finds it hard to cry. Listen to this music alone, or you won't be able to hear it.
Also the magnificent Thomas Newman and his music for "The Player" and and especially for "American Beauty", crisp, acid, deep, and innately forgiving, and asks for nothing in return. Thank you Thomas and Steve. And John Cage and Aaron Copland.
Merry Christmas again.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
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As an aside, I'd like to recommend another piece of music, particularly while driving:
Steve Reich's "Music For Eighteen Musicians", a kind of all-enveloping musical koan which provides, for me anyway, the invaluable power to re-experience moments of my life with a distant, but not remote sympathy... Simple joys and complex tragedies seem to distill into a single wine, a tart and cold and acidic wine, but delicious nonetheless, and well worth the drinking. Driving home from Christmas dinner I listened to it very loud, and it did me good. I was even able to properly grieve, not for my dead, but for myself, who finds it hard to cry. Listen to this music alone, or you won't be able to hear it.
Also the magnificent Thomas Newman and his music for "The Player" and and especially for "American Beauty", crisp, acid, deep, and innately forgiving, and asks for nothing in return. Thank you Thomas and Steve. And John Cage and Aaron Copland.
Merry Christmas again.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
Steve Reich's "Music For Eighteen Musicians", a kind of all-enveloping musical koan which provides, for me anyway, the invaluable power to re-experience moments of my life with a distant, but not remote sympathy... Simple joys and complex tragedies seem to distill into a single wine, a tart and cold and acidic wine, but delicious nonetheless, and well worth the drinking. Driving home from Christmas dinner I listened to it very loud, and it did me good. I was even able to properly grieve, not for my dead, but for myself, who finds it hard to cry. Listen to this music alone, or you won't be able to hear it.
Also the magnificent Thomas Newman and his music for "The Player" and and especially for "American Beauty", crisp, acid, deep, and innately forgiving, and asks for nothing in return. Thank you Thomas and Steve. And John Cage and Aaron Copland.
Merry Christmas again.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
