Tyrol Rimbaud started the event with a wonderful speech that really touched me:
"Welcome, Welcome to everyone!
Thank you all for coming to this special finale concert of our week long celebration of the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
I know you are as excited as I for the incisive interpretations of our dear friend Catheirne Moody, so I will try to be concise.
Some three hundred and twenty two years ago Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a world quite different from our own.
His was an age of the culmination of monarchial rule and the subservience of artists.
As an unprepossessing bourgeoisie we do not think of Bach as a revolutionary. He lived simply, and in the comfort of his family and circumscribed world.
But he did help fashion the age of enlightenment and the rights of the individual through his humanitarian understanding of the importance of a life enriched by beauty.
Three hundred years later his musical creations still move us to inspiration and nobility; solace for solus souls, if one were to say.
What does his music mean to us in this age of technological ghosts?
Yes there is rationalism in these measures; the structure that appeals to our desire for order. But that rationalism is balanced, perfectly balanced even, by the most acute understanding of human pathos.
Bach's music delights us with its intellect and its expressive nuance. But its effects are far greater.
The joy of experiencing these artisitic creations carry with us into our lives; moving us to share with our fellow travelers the compassion that Johann Sebastian Bach wrought from his pen some three hundred years in the past.
I thank everyone for being here today and sharing with me and my friends your fellowship. This is an event for all of us to come together and become united as a community, thank you.
There will be an intermission today of short duration So, stretch your legs, have some lemonade this Sunday, and please do say hello. Donations of appreciation to the artist are welcomed. Also, you may need to turn up your volume on external speakers to hear today's concert more fully."
Lorelei Saintlouis: /lovely Tyrol!
Daisy: Meow! I'm Catherine Meowdy's tip cat. Please feed meeeeeeow generously with linden dollars. Meow.
JayJay Klees: nice!
Tyrol Rimbaud: [continuing] As many of you know, this is my great honor and privilege to introduce to you my close friend...... AND, my Second Life daughter..... whatever that may mean.......
Catherine Moody gasps!
Tyrol Rimbaud: Catherine Moody was found playing in a garden, and today she is still playing in a garden. She is a delight to me everyday. And I am thankful for all that she has already imparted to me. Today you will be able to experience that magic yourself, as she interprets for us the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Tyrol Rimbaud: Fellow travelers, our good friend Catherine Moody.................
Ged Larsen: - applause -
Alphonsus Peck: applause
Margo Despres: applause
Roko Johin: applause
Alphonsus Peck sighs.
Tyrol Rimbaud: / The Well-Tempered Clavier: 48 Preludes and Fugues No. 1 in C major
2 comments:
The people love you too Catherine! Thank you - that was a wonderful recital.
I was very disappointed that we were not able to host this year's Bach festival on Music Island due to a last minute decision by Tyrol to move the festival to Barcelona. But our series continues to thrive and grow and I hope you might be a part of it!
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