Tuesday, July 19, 2005El arte de musica
It is a beautiful thing, una cosa bella, el arte de musica.
It must be, for how else can music make humans sway and swerve in their actions and motions and emotions? How else can music shoot stars, twinkling, glittering, exploding and--falling--into the eyes and lives of humans?
You can see it for yourself. El arte de musica happens, in all its forms and styles (as all beautiful entities happen, in different colors, shapes and moulds) every second of each day. Sit in a cafe, sipping your latte, and let the coffee and foam swirl inside you as la musica de esta cafe glides smoothly inside you too, wrapping you in a luxurious lightness, a state of noncaring, almost nonbeing. Stroll down 3rd Street, Santa Monica, and be struck with each (como sus rayos son tan fuertes!) Christmas light, millions of them strung crazily in the thin trees, while each band in the street strikes their tune, each band vying for your dispersed attention. See Rostropovich, at his cello, Richter, at his piano, each in deep communion with their loves, yet all the while bound to each other through Beethoven's Cello Sonata Op. 102 No. 2--see their expressions--hear their hearts speaking out--feel their ever moving music.
But why is the art of music beautiful?...Por que es bella, el arte de musica?
Why, most simply because of its most indescribable yet always described nature. Because one cannot show us all 'beautiful music', and leave it there. Because one cannot explain all of music's 'beautiful' components and characteristics.
Es porque la musica--it cannot be pinned down and shown, in a nice, neat area like the tip of a pin, what and how it is. It is because the same cannot be done with humans.
Because the things most beautiful in this world--si, las cosas mas bellas--have shapes, colors, styles, flavors, textures; indeed, they are diverse and wildly changing as the world itself always has been and always will be.
(Jee Won)
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