As I try to wrap my head around my upcoming mission to Atlanta, I keep asking myself “What is more important, to entertain or to enlighten?” It’s made me turn introspective and all spiritually and eventually go looking for my Daniel Lanois DVD (which I still haven’t found). So here I am, digging on Youtube again:
Almost at the end of the first part, Lanois says:
“…and as performers, we witness the raising of the Spirit, you know, the capacity the music has to change the feeling of a room. So we can’t help but be spiritual people…”
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Near then end of this clip, Lanois says:
” Heart and soul is probably what’s most important in the “center of the matter”, and especially within an education system that we’ve sorta been brought up in, we are led to believe that if you’re interested in a subject matter, then you should study. But in fact, Passion is probably your greatest teacher, because even as a kid, if you’re passionate about something, you can learn how to do it through looking at books, asking friends, listening to records…whatever you’re interested in.”
Passion. That’s what I’ve gotta book.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I get it! Let me tell one little anecdote:
There’s a township in North Shore Chicago called Ravinia. It is the name of an outdoor amphitheater, with lawn gently sloping down to the seating area to the stage. Out on the lawn it is [was] $12 for a family of three to sit on a blanket, with picnic basket on the lawn and listen to CSO.
It is in the middle of a community, as if just another Northshore Mansion; but that is why it is so remarkable. As the CSO worked through their program for the night, it didn’t matter where one was situated in the lawn or in the covered area. What mattered was the way the music filled up all the spaces in between.
I miss that a lot. We have the University of Texas Summer Symphony Program near here at Round Top Texas…. maybe, just maybe we can go there for spiritual upgrades… soon.