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Written By Edward Wolfe
Three Musicians

Picasso, Three Musicians

For the final entry in this series of music quotes, I found this moving treatise on music, related in the first person as if music herself is speaking to us.  If you have time to listen to some of the links, let me know how you felt about them.  Or perhaps you’d like to tell me some of the music that for you personifies the character of the music referenced.  EW

I tell the story of love, the story of sorrow, the story that saves and the story that destroys…. I am the smoke which palls over the field of battle where men die with me on their lips. I am close to the marriage altar, and when the grave opens I stand nearby. I call the wanderer home, I rescue the soul from the depths; I open the lips of lovers and through me the dead whisper to the living. One I serve as I serve all, and the leaders I make my slaves as easily as I subject their slaves. I speak through the birds of the air, the insects of the field, the crash of waters on rock-ribbed shores, the sighing of the wind in the trees and I am even heard by the soul that knows me in the clatter of the wheels on city streets.  Anonymous.  Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.

Next week: For the Sheer Beauty of It, a series of free recordings online that are among my favorites.

Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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