♫ BACH Motet “Jesu, meine Freude”
Vocalconsort Berlin w/ Daniel Reuss
http://bit.ly/GzK3dk
Sung as one magnificent whole,
as it was composed
COMMENTARY ON TWEET NO. 2700]
There are many things I find remarkable about
this fine production. Musically, there’s the rich
creative tradition of word and sound and voice
so wonderfully balanced here. Just
15 voices, w/ bass and organ for resonance
and support. Politically, however, such artistic
excellence is now threatened everywhere, not
just in happy Amsterdam, by the mean-spiritied
economics of “balanced budgets and perpetual crisis.”
I beg to differ: First, War creates debt. Then, War
creates the politics of cultural self-destruction.
Finally, Creativity’s voice will no longer be silenced.
That is protest. That is what I hear in this great
spirit of Bach’s music. “Trotz dem alten Drachen /
Defy, the old Demon” The demon is not debt.
The demon is war.