Post by NatureCriminal7896 on May 27, 2022 5:57:31 GMT
Music has probably been the most widespread art in human history, especially in our day, due to the incredible speed at which it spreads. I love classical and instrumental music, but here I want to deal with the power of the words of two popular songs that have often made me cry: "Imagine", composed by John Lennon in 1971, and "We Are the World", made by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie in 1985. I suggest you listen to them after reading this article.
Because of my musical background (I am a classical guitar teacher), I value the work of musicians very much and I like to listen to music in silence, alone, usually with large headphones, to pay attention to every detail of the instruments and words. I believe this is what every musician/composer expects for his works. And that way I heard those two songs this week.
What impresses me most about them is their timeliness. "Imagine" became the universal anthem of peace and preaches the existence of a world very similar, in some ways, to the present: for the first time in history, the world lives what Lennon wrote in 1971: "a brotherhood of people". In fact, the world has united peacefully around one cause: the struggle for life for the first time since time immemorial. In the universe conceived by Lennon, there is "no reason for greed and no hunger, no reason to kill or die, and all the inhabitants of the Earth live in peace."
It is an almost real utopia today: wars have stopped, the powerful have come together in search of a saving vaccine and ordinary people are living an unprecedented experience of fraternal love and solidarity. I had let this go on forever!!
In "We Are the World," Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie say that "there are people dying and this is the time to reach out to them." And tina turner's verse says "they're part of God's great family." Something more current and pressing? The song also says that "the world needs to be together as one." And this is what, unfortunately for such a sad reason, is happening in our day.
How I would like this brotherhood of people to be the result not of a torturous and lethal epidemic, but of love, of the understanding that in the eyes of God we are all equal, of the understanding that inequality is cruel and inhuman... Few with much more than any human being need to live and others eating land with water in Mozambique every day, not to starve, as I learned earlier, as I learned.
It is not possible that this huge amount of deaths does not bring a significant and permanent benefit to humanity. Something very good has to happen when all this is over. Anyone who knows me knows I'm an invethet. But, beyond 70 and knowing the human being as these seven decades of life have allowed me to know, I have my doubts there whether man will really maintain the current feeling of love for others or if, with the virus properly deberated, will return to do everything he did before. I hope I'm totally wrong.
And I wish with all my heart that John Lennon's words in the "Imagine" snare still come true: "You can say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope that one day you will join us and the world will live as one." Amen!!!
by Ben-Hur Macedo, journalist/columnist of the newspaper The Pendulum
Because of my musical background (I am a classical guitar teacher), I value the work of musicians very much and I like to listen to music in silence, alone, usually with large headphones, to pay attention to every detail of the instruments and words. I believe this is what every musician/composer expects for his works. And that way I heard those two songs this week.
What impresses me most about them is their timeliness. "Imagine" became the universal anthem of peace and preaches the existence of a world very similar, in some ways, to the present: for the first time in history, the world lives what Lennon wrote in 1971: "a brotherhood of people". In fact, the world has united peacefully around one cause: the struggle for life for the first time since time immemorial. In the universe conceived by Lennon, there is "no reason for greed and no hunger, no reason to kill or die, and all the inhabitants of the Earth live in peace."
It is an almost real utopia today: wars have stopped, the powerful have come together in search of a saving vaccine and ordinary people are living an unprecedented experience of fraternal love and solidarity. I had let this go on forever!!
In "We Are the World," Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie say that "there are people dying and this is the time to reach out to them." And tina turner's verse says "they're part of God's great family." Something more current and pressing? The song also says that "the world needs to be together as one." And this is what, unfortunately for such a sad reason, is happening in our day.
How I would like this brotherhood of people to be the result not of a torturous and lethal epidemic, but of love, of the understanding that in the eyes of God we are all equal, of the understanding that inequality is cruel and inhuman... Few with much more than any human being need to live and others eating land with water in Mozambique every day, not to starve, as I learned earlier, as I learned.
It is not possible that this huge amount of deaths does not bring a significant and permanent benefit to humanity. Something very good has to happen when all this is over. Anyone who knows me knows I'm an invethet. But, beyond 70 and knowing the human being as these seven decades of life have allowed me to know, I have my doubts there whether man will really maintain the current feeling of love for others or if, with the virus properly deberated, will return to do everything he did before. I hope I'm totally wrong.
And I wish with all my heart that John Lennon's words in the "Imagine" snare still come true: "You can say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope that one day you will join us and the world will live as one." Amen!!!
by Ben-Hur Macedo, journalist/columnist of the newspaper The Pendulum