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“A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.”

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Russell Sherman is an esteemed classical pianist born in 1930. His musical career is marked by a rich array of experiences and a wide range of repertoire, renowned for his exquisite technique and profound understanding of music. more

“For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.”

“The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.”

Humans Heart Long Seems Order Sound Mystery Creation Instruments Chaos Organs Human Heart Primal Stirring Proceeding

Author:Richard Wagner

“In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.”

Humans Earth Song Humanity Sound Evolution Speech Ancient Revelations Human Evolution Ancient Times

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.”

Art Soul Reason Force Logic Mere Conviction Revelations Combat Powerless

Author:Richard Wagner

“The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.”

Men Soul He Man

Author:Plato

“I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.”

“We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.”

Ifs Humans Stills Body Form Next Memories Existence Possibility Connected After Death Human Form Next Life

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.”

Men Kind May Character Feelings Form Emotion Effects Various Rhythm Melody Accustomed Distinguished

Author:Aristotle

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