[Dixielandjazz] Music as COMMUNICATION

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hummmm!!!


Just think WWW IT WOULD BE IF GOVERNMENTS FUNDED MUSIC LIKE THEY DO 
MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS, we could finally perhaps fight all wars and 
settle all disputes by sending our best musicians to musically battle 
it out on stages in front of all the citizenry, wow! talk about Some 
cutting contests.  :))   Nobody would want to fight they would rather 
Dance, or just chill out and listen to good music, drink good wine and 
maybe reinstate nice wholesome Orgy revivals and stage more great Love 
Ins :))  Heck it worked for the Italians for a long time didn't it?

At the end of the performance the audience could vote and the winners 
and the losers could all go home and practice for a musical battle with 
the next country, and maybe practice harder for the next war or train 
their kids to be better for a chance at it again later.  Hey it works 
for the 4 -H clubs, and most sporting activities even though we do get 
some unfriendly rivalries from time to time but we have ways to remedy 
that, take them out of the sport and banish them to playing accordion 
or washboard only.

If we could find enough musicians who could actually see eye to eye and 
hear ear to ear and not want to fight about it and start swinging 
instruments of mass destruction at each other on stage.

Almost all children will play well together, if just allowed to do so,  
Hatred is taught and or brainwashed into youth, by their parents, and 
peers and even educators and the media, not inherited.   One would 
think that after centuries we as humans would have evolved enough to 
understand that and alter our teachings to our young.

Musical content:  "Let's work together"  every man woman and child, 
then WWW it truly could be.

Rev. Tom Bob  First church of just play nice




-----Original Message-----
From: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 7:42 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Music as COMMUNICATION

    Below is a very brief snip from a long NY Times article. Interesting 
to
those who hear music as communication and/or as part of the 
sociological and
political development among different people.

For the full article, write me off list. Just put NY TIMES in the 
subject
line and I will see and answer it even if you get stopped by my spam 
filter.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone



Harmony Across a Divide

NY TIMES - By Alan Riding - August 20, 2006 - From Seville, Spain

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra opened its 2006 tour earlier this month
with the first classical concert ever to be performed at the bullring in
Seville, Spain.

IT was an immensely appealing experiment, both in its idealism and in 
its
simplicity: Let young Israeli and Arab musicians play together in an
orchestra to show that communication and cooperation were possible 
between
peoples who had long fought each other.

(Remainder snipped)


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