Re: MD SQ-SQ tension in Mozart's Symphony No38

From: Joe (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sat Feb 14 2004 - 17:06:38 GMT

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    Hi Platt

    Thanks for the Poe quote! Outstanding!

    Joe

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:21 AM
    Subject: Re: MD SQ-SQ tension in Mozart's Symphony No38

    > Hi Joe,
    >
    > > After 10 years of
    > > singing with the local symphonic chorus, I still cannot control my
    feelings
    > > as I practice my bass part. In my 50 years of singing in Church choirs,
    I
    > > am still nervous and tense with anxiety, always sensing an excelllence
    that
    > > is approachable, but not achievable!
    >
    > Joe, you are a true artist! You have expressed the feeling of all who
    > understand that Spirit is within each of us, seeking expression but always
    > falling short--unless you are a Michelangelo or a Mozart. What you (and
    > everyone knows if only they would look deep within himself) was
    > beautifully penned by Edgar Alan Poe:
    >
    > "An immortal instinct, deep within the human spirit, is a sense of the
    > beautiful. That is what adminsters our delight in life. But there is still
    > something in the distance which we know of, but are unable fully to
    > attain.
    >
    > "It is not mere appreciation of the beauty before us, but a wild effort to
    > reach the beauty above, to attain a portion of that loveliness whose very
    > elements appertain to eternity alone.
    >
    > "When we find ourselves near the point of tears in apprehending beauty, we
    > weep not through an excess of pleasure, but through a certain petulant,
    > impatient sorrow at our inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at
    > once and forever, those divine and rapturous joys of which, in rare
    > moments, we attain a brief and indeterminate glimpse.
    >
    > "The artist struggles to create such supernal beauty, to make one see or
    > hear with shivering delight a sight or sound which cannot have been
    > unfamiliar to angels."
    >
    > I doubt if Poe is talking about banging on trash cans. :-)
    >
    > Thanks for reminding us of what motivates the legitimate artist.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Platt
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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