Song & Dance
by ridesthewind
Music is the soul's elixir. I don't remember when it wasn't part of my life either in a huge way, (professional musician) or in the kind of way where it's like the puppeteer which moves us through the times of our lives, leaving behind it the sweet trail of memories, like the scent of something that can bring you back to a moment in time in such a way that you're there, as you were in that so long ago instant.
I listen to almost every kind of music from Classical (Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd movement, Mozart's 21st Piano concerto, Albinoni's Adagio, Vivaldi's Winter from the Four Seasons, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Schubert's Unfinished) to Ragtime, Big Band (talk about foot tapping music!), to early rock anthems, from people like The King and later ones from Janis, Allman Bros, Tommy Bolin, Beatles, Springsteen, Lennon solo, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead and on and on) to folk music (from greats like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, to Joan Baez, Boy Dylan, Laura Nero, moving up through time to Simon and Garfunkel), psychiadelia (including musicals like HAIR), metal (Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath), late 60s, 70s, 80s and on into the 90s. Of course, as I delve into my own roots, I find people like Bill Miller, Buddy Red Bow, Dinean, and other First Nation citizens' songs a wonderful addition, rounding out my musical experience. There's something for every possible thought, feeling, notion. Music can make us love, hate, laugh, cry, dance, visualize and evoke a myriad of other emotions in a way few other things can urge us on in life. It's too hard to name favorites when each moment with each new piece of music I'm saying, Oh Yeah! I Love This!
Put music with dance and you have a marriage that can be delightful, erotic, comical, enacting every state of human emotion, spiraling around each other, in tune with each other, or even sychopated, discordant to each other, one playing off the other where you can't see which one drives the which. One of the most erotic love scenes I've ever seen was on stage at an Alvin Ailey show.
When I was little and as I lived through my years, I never thought I could write poetry until I happened on this place (in a chat) and I became a member of a group of poets who met weekly to share our words. But where I found the words was in the music floating into my brain through headphones. The passion of some music drove me to write words as if I were just the implement through which the words flowed. I was awed with the results, that I could write what I saw on the screen, but more, that what was in the music could inspire it, seduce it out of me. I've listened to music so exquisite that I find myself amazed that something so awe-inspiring can come from inside another being. Together, it's a dance: words and music, weaving a web of endless possibilities.
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