speaking of Ted...
funny.
I watched part of War Dance today - that is about the healing power of music. {war dance is not funny, i'm not even sure i can watch the rest of it}
And now am listening to Robert Gupta, a violinist with the LA Philharmonic, talking about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician -- and what he learned.
That music is medicine.
We don't need programs to fix ourselves, we need things, passions, bigger than ourselves. An art, which by it's own definition includes a service...
Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people. -Seth Godin, Linchpin
That giving away is the cure.
This is what school should be. The place to find that passion/art and work on it. Work on something bigger than yourself, not busy work, and I swear, personal problems/addictions, and world problems/addictions, will start to solve themselves.
Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.
that's medicine for the listener as well....dang
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