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Licking old wounds is considered to be counterproductive, and it usually is; but sometimes it can be instructive. Please bear with me.
During intermission Friday evening at Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School’s production of The Threepenny Opera, by Kurt Weill and Bertoldt Brecht, the common somewhat frantic theme of conversation in the audience was about the “damn air conditioning”, which was drowning out almost all the dialogue and some of the singing. This may be just a detail for building maintenance crews, but it is a significant detail for the audience and the performers.
Here was a pretty credible production of a very difficult vocal work, Continue reading
The Silence of the Lotus Eaters
Barricade yourselves within the music
that blossoms in your ears like heroin dreams.
Nurture the stone silence that extends
around you
penetrated only by the muted steely hissing
escaping like steam from an ancient steel piston.
Garrison yourselves inside your shiny road machines
that pound the hobbled streets with rhythmic bass.
avoid the strident rhetoric of crows
that only argue over bleeding eyes of roadkill.
Outside your sacred veils of sound
another nature sings and always has.
It lives in water, earth and sky
and chants bliss that needs no electricity.