Tuesday, November 22, 2011

cecilian community

what could it mean to have a community
founded on music
a community where the presentation of music
is the foremost reason for existence
and perhaps with the understanding that
the music presented is always presented to god
as best we can know
and this requires discipline the community is
disciplined by the demands
of music and everyday people in the community arise
and realize they are required to make music
and the music must correspond with what the day means
and what the day could mean in a less than perfect realm

people are attracted to music like
deer to running streams

music fire and food
these are community things

the ideal is the effort to get the music right
little else matters

it's worth a try

7 comments:

  1. taize
    a dang good 20th century paradigm

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  2. music fire and food
    these are community things

    the ideal is the effort to get the music right
    little else matters


    I'd vote for trying to get the food and fire right too :-).

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  3. what a lovely idea
    a community based on music

    i'm going to think about this
    for a while

    it might help motivate me
    to practice viola
    if i could see my music
    as having meaning within a community

    st cecilia pray for us

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  4. Sounds sublime in principle--
    Somewhat like a Brautigan story.
    Alas, not so great when time
    to pay the rent or when the local klansmen find out.

    (hola S.)

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