I Use Music As Therapy For the Soul
I'm a retired orchestral musician, & I'd like to share a composition that's of special value to me, Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, partly because of the story of its birth. (I hope you can look past my sissy-trans pseudonym and costume, and attend to my thoughts here.)
Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote his most well-known work after a long bout of paralyzing depression and anxiety that his musical talent had run dry; he dedicated the new piece to the doctor who helped him overcome and succeed.
Hope you don't mind my planting a guided-listening image on you, about the first five minutes or so. Of course everyone is different...
One night, into a hospital ward with no electricity, a surgeon brings a lit candle, sets it down, and begins to work on the first patient, even as he worries about so many others suffering in the dark; eventually he will try to get to them, but all he can do is proceed one step at a time. After a while, he hears another hurting patient thank him for being there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w
See if it doesn’t tell a story vaguely like that, on the theme of a candle in the dark. (no reference to Elton John, though I do enjoy his stuff. O no, that was Wind.)
Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote his most well-known work after a long bout of paralyzing depression and anxiety that his musical talent had run dry; he dedicated the new piece to the doctor who helped him overcome and succeed.
Hope you don't mind my planting a guided-listening image on you, about the first five minutes or so. Of course everyone is different...
One night, into a hospital ward with no electricity, a surgeon brings a lit candle, sets it down, and begins to work on the first patient, even as he worries about so many others suffering in the dark; eventually he will try to get to them, but all he can do is proceed one step at a time. After a while, he hears another hurting patient thank him for being there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w
See if it doesn’t tell a story vaguely like that, on the theme of a candle in the dark. (no reference to Elton John, though I do enjoy his stuff. O no, that was Wind.)
70-79, T
