RE: Refuge, Rest, and Healing on a Summer Day in San Francisco's Near-Eden (Albert Hague with Dr. Seuss, Handel, and Bruckner)
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Frau Matthews, even Grinch arrived at Q inspired thanks to you :)
Well, not just him but the teaching about the healing of his heart, as you are so right that love and music can heal all the broken hearts. Togetherness.. these days I was thinking about, how people decide to live together, I mean not just two people in a romantic relationship but people in general, if we could go back in time and see... making communities, settlements, villages, cities and so on. Love and that feeling of togetherness must play a very important role in any society. Sorry, I digressed from your topic but somehow this word, togetherness, made me share with you my thoughts that have been here for some days 😅
I thank you for sharing ... I was actually thinking for next week along that line ... I do not think that humans ever make community without those things ... we have just forgotten ... but Thurl Ravenscroft (the glorious bass of my cartoon life) and Kurt Möll made it their business to leave us reminders in their body of work. Herr Möll was from Buir, Germany, a village 20 kilometers from Cologne, so he knew about what Dr. Seuss would have described, and was born in 1938 ... just before World War II. There must have been some early years for him in which music and hurting people -- refugees from Cologne -- often met. His heart became very, very large, for that marked him throughout his life.
The Negro Spiritual tells us the same thing ... my ancestors were cruelly enslaved, but they came together anyhow, sang, and kept going, 13 generations down to freedom. All my elders and my grand old soldier are from little towns that would correspond to Buir, and all of them passed that same kind of legacy to me.
If we were to study human history, and the greatest music in terms of what sustains people ... what we see in the Grinch is all there is. All these people are singing the same thing to us because it is, and forever will be, true, and what we need.