AND THE NIGHT SHALL BE FILLED WITH MUSIC!

Music MUSIC music... magic... total joy... pulsing through every cell.

This week my body is full of life again...rediscovering powerful emotion...heart full ...swaying to the glory of Chopin's Nocturne No. 8 in D flat.  Dancing my crazy personal dance around the studio, eyes closed...to Song of the Soul by Cris Williamson....raising my arms, "filled with the Spirit" as they say,...and indeed, I am.  I can't imagine why I let music almost drop out of my life.  I think it was after the big earthquake in Santa Monica...all my fabulous albums were ruined and the fine turntable destroyed.  Now, more than a decade later, my favorite pieces of music, from classical to disco, play off my iPod through my rich, full Bose speakers....

Sometimes, as a kind of meditation, I listen to Barbara Striesand singing HOLY GROUND. 

If I need to MOVE I play one of those wild big-beat disco tunes from the 70's...like NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE, by Gloria Gaynor.  Often I long for the soaring, deeply gorgeous, heartbreakingly beautiful sound of Dvorak's ROMANCE IN F MINOR, opus 11.  I move with eyes closed, arms waving - pulling music from the artists like an inspired conductor.  And how about Sarah Brightman's HOW FAIR IS THIS PLACE?  

And SINGING is so fab!  In my youth I sang all the time:  solos, trios, choirs.  My voice is scratchy and sort-of trembly now...but so what.  With my head phones on I boldly sing along with Anne Murray and her great new DUETS album...Anne's voice is getting older too, but god, can she belt out those famous olde tunes, like MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE...(.that's a good one to dance & sing to).  Or Eva Cassidy's SONGBIRD.  I can't believe the gift of music...it fills my spirit with life.  My whole family loves/loved music.  It's in the genes.

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Here's a collage that reflects some of the ecstasy I find in music.

Comments

[Susan]

Dear Dorothy,
This is a song I tried to share with you a while back--Love and Happiness by Al Green. If this doesn't make any of us get up and move, well then I don't know...
In the season of love, Susan

[sophie eurich-rascoe]

i would wither and die w/o music. your thots are inspiring to me.... and not just these. hugs, sophie

[dorothy Anderson]

HI SUSAN I just found out today how to access comments from my few readers...and was delighted to find you. Yes Al Green is fab...one can't stay still!
Love, dorothy