It is that time of year....

 

So may I share some extracts that were collected by my late partner Janet:-

 

They are in a plain text document, attached as - HarmoniesHeavenEarth.txt.

 

Love with Light to you all,

 

George

... One can sense it in the stillness that ought to follow a musical
performance. Clairvoyants assure us that they see it, but that it can be
shattered by the sound of applause. Alas, one seldom has the pleasure of
inhaling its full fragrance in silence, unless it be at home-where, in turn, one
seldom enjoys live performances by the greatest interpreters. The French
writer Camille Mauclair, who was most sensitive to these things, describes
the howls, stampings, and cheers of an intoxicated audience as the growling
of savage beasts before Orpheus. Yet he recognizes it as the sad but
necessary means by which they re-enter ordinary life after musical
ecstasy, and also as their way of compelling the performers to
acknowledge their 'music' and to become merely human again. In any case,
no musical vibrations are ever entirely lost: even though they are dispersed,
they will go on vibrating through the cosmos for eternity. Mauclair also
writes of this, in an essay on 'Occultisme musical', saying that 'All our
symphonies are recomposed in unknown worlds, as if on prodigious
phonographs, and if, as I like to believe, they make music on other planets,
it is quite possible that they will send us its echoes one day. This is a
modern recasting of the ancient idea of human music being heard by the
angels, according to the conventional equation of the planetary spheres with
celestial states of being.

There would be material for another book if one were to examine all the
statements of composers for evidence that they, too, understand their
inspiration as having its source on another plane. One would find ample
corroboration from the composers of the Romantic era, especially:

When I compose, I feel that I am appropriating that same spirit to which
Jesus so often referred. (Brahms.)

When in my most inspired moods, I have definite compelling visions,
involving a higher selfhood. I feel at such moments that I am tapping the
source of Infinite and Eternal energy from which you and I and all things
proceed. Religion calls it God. (Richard Strauss.)

I have very definite impressions while in that trance-like condition,
which is the prerequisite of all true creative effort. I feel that I am one
with this vibrating Force, that it is omniscient, and that I can draw upon it to
an extent that is limited only by my own capacity to do so. (Wagner,
reported by Humperdinck.)

There are other ways of communing with God besides attending Mass and
confession. When I am composing I feel that He is close to me and approves
of what I am doing. (Puccini.)
My most beautiful melodies have come to me in dreams. (Max Bruch.)
We composers are projectors of the infinite into the finite. (Grieg.)