Music Is Essential To Life
You walk into a doctor’s office with a life-threatening condition and he will try to save your life.
I am musician and sound-therapist, and if you walk into my music sessions or into my concert hall with a confused mind, a broken heart and a weary soul, I hope that you will walk out somewhat whole again.
As a musician and sound-therapist I am not an entertainer. I am more like a paramedic, a rescue worker. I find the invisible, broken pieces in your heart, and I try to get them to line up, so that you can be in harmony with yourself again and find serenity.
Many do not understand the value of music, its purpose and function.
This is clear, because parents, although they are excited about their child’s next recital and support music lessons, still imagine their kids to become doctors, lawyers, researchers, engineers, computer geeks, because they fear that society will not properly appreciate their child if they become a professional musician.
Even the ancient Greeks knew that music and astronomy are two sides of the same coin:
Astronomy is the study of relationships between observable, external objects.
Music is the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects.
The Greeks knew that music is essential to life, and the path to figuring out the position of things inside of us, like a compass.
For example:
September 11, 2001, marks one of the worst attacks on the United States of America, when terrorists took over a commercial airplane packed with hundreds of passengers, and flew it into the Twin Towers of New York City, killing hundreds of innocent people. That day, and the weeks to follow, no one played boardgames, no one played cards or watched entertainment on TV, no one went shopping at the mall, but there was singing.
People sang hymns; they sang ‘We shall overcome’ and ‘America the Beautiful’. The first organized public expression of grief was the Brahms Requiem at the Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic.
Recovery Was Gained Through The Arts.
Another chilling example is that of Nazi Germany during World War II. The French composer, Olivier Messiaen, was captured by the Germans in June 1940, and imprisoned in a concentration camp. There he wrote one of the most profound musical compositions of all time.
The conditions in those concentration camps were so inhumane and horrific beyond what words could say or describe, but despite it all, the people wrote poems and composed and played music. Those “prisoners” barely had the essentials to survive and needed their energy to stay warm, avoid beatings and withstand torture, yet from these camps we have music and poetry. This leads us to believe, that music and the arts must be essential for life.
Art is part of survival and part of the human spirit.
Peace and harmony between humans will not come from a government, a military force or a corporation nor from the religions of the world.
If there is a future of peace for humankind, if there is to be an understanding of how these invisible, internal things should fit together, it will come from the artists, because that is what we do.
Daniela, The Vegan-Mom
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