I am music

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Written By Edward Wolfe

Author's note to my readers: I suggest you allot some extra time to listen to the incredible music linked in this post! 

I am music...

I tell the story of love,1 the story of sorrow,2 the story that saves3 and the story that destroys4…. I am the smoke5 which palls over the field of battle where men die with me on their lips. I am close to the marriage altar,6 and when the grave opens7 I stand nearby. I call the wanderer home,8 I rescue the soul9 from the depths; I open the lips of lovers10 and through me the dead whisper to the living.11 One I serve as I serve all, and the leaders I make my slaves as easily as I subject their slaves. I speak through the birds of the air, the insects of the field, the crash of waters on rock-ribbed shores,12 the sighing of the wind in the trees and I am even heard by the soul that knows me in the clatter of the wheels on city streets.13 

I am music

Anonymous.  Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.

I will add that in music, we mortals taste a faint tincture of the divine presence and joy of the Lord.  Thank God for music!  EW

Pieces referenced in this post

  1. Tchaikovsky, "Love Theme," Romeo and Juliet (2:06)

  2. Barber, Adagio for Strings (8:50)

  3. Holst, "Jupiter," The Planets (7:45)

  4. Williams, "Imperial March," Star Wars (3:49)

  5. Holst, "Mars," The Planets (6:57)

  6. Grieg, "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" (5:57)

  7. Bach, "Et resurrexit," Mass in B Minor (3:41)

  8. Schönberg and Boubil, "Bring Him Home," Les Miserables (4:03)

  9. Brahms, "How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place," Requiem (5:27)

  10. Schönberg and Boubil, "In My Life," Les Miserables (4:17)

  11. Schönberg and Boubil, "Epilogue and Finale," Les Miserables (8:43)

  12. Haydn, "The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God," The Creation (3:41)

  13. Gershwin, An American in Paris (18:24)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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