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Music for Palestine I

We have seen visual artists, cartoonists and even athletes moved to join the cause for justice for Palestine; musicians and musical artists have also been active in solidarity and in … Continue reading

28 January, 2009 · 6 Comments

Omnia Sol Temperat

Another musical interlude, one of my favourites from Carl Orff’s splendid Carmina Burana. UPDATE: I’ve replaced the audio file with a more accessible audio .mp3 file format that should be … Continue reading

19 January, 2009 · 2 Comments

Ommi – Ummi (My Mother) أمي – مرسيل خليفة

Marcel Khalife: composer, singer, teacher, accomplished oud-player, UNESCO Artist for Peace and, through his music, advocate for Palestine. Here is his incomparable Ommi in which he sings movingly about his … Continue reading

19 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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