“The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.” IdeasWholeLastsRichMessagesPagesArgumentAll ThingsConnectionsUltimateFilledNotesSupremeChainsPassagesArchitectFragmentsSecuredNamelessEmbroideryRumination Author:Russell Sherman
“Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.” IdeasWaterSilenceSolutionsAngelConstantMusicalHearingNoiseBridgesFacultyPoeticInstructionReceivingStableSilence IsExposureMajesticSoda Author:Russell Sherman