June 25th 2023: Music For Life

Frank Zappa, guitarist, composer, and leader of the band Mothers of Invention, once said: “Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”  From a different point of view, the poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou wrote: “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

Sunday, we’ll explore many ways music is meaningful in our lives and the lives of others, ranging from 1500 BCE to today, and from symphonies to jingles, from be-bop to lullabies, from birthday greetings to climate crisis awareness, and from composition to the last fading note of a favourite song.