Requiem
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A Quarter of a Century ago / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Tears are an internal mode of the moment. Only a sort of permission by the touched one, or a certain point of needing a release, or of wanting to sense, or express weakness, or fragility, or fragile strength, will water the eyes to the point that tears reach the cheeks, perhaps the jaws. Tears need…
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Is it wise to “fall” asleep with a requiem on the ears?
Looked lightly at my small record collection, and picked a recording from 1954 — Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic playing the Requiem by Johannes Brahms. I did wonder, not intensively serious but with some depth, what is being conveyed to the sleeping living when the piece is for the non-living sleepers?
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A Requiem on Arrival
What happens to a newborn when touched, impressed, moved by the depth of music but without the release of tears? Where does the intensity land?
Sila Blume 