Comments on: New spirit http://rogerbourland.com/2008/11/15/new-spirit/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:06:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/2008/11/15/new-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-92688 Roger Bourland Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:33:20 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2008/11/15/new-spirit/#comment-92688 "Good music can leap over language barriers, and barriers of religion and politics." Pete Seeger Songwriters and composers are not so far from being cheer leaders, politicians, shamans, magicians, and pharmacists. “Good music can leap over language barriers, and barriers of religion and politics.”
Pete Seeger

Songwriters and composers are not so far from being cheer leaders, politicians, shamans, magicians, and pharmacists.

]]> By: citrus http://rogerbourland.com/2008/11/15/new-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-92687 citrus Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:24:38 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2008/11/15/new-spirit/#comment-92687 By definition a liberal may hold ANY position. Diversity is part of the deal. I don't know. There are some composers - I would guess, I'm not a scholar on such things- who honestly believe that their music is direct from God. I believe that marriage is for people, not people for marriage. (To paraphrase a famous quote from Jesus re: the Sabbath) It is, or should be a gift as well as a mystery. Incidentally, there is diversity regarding which day the Sabbath falls on - Saturday or Sunday. (We go to church on Saturday! But we don't question the authenticity of faith on the part of those who go on Sunday.) That's a liberal for you. By definition a liberal may hold ANY position. Diversity is part of the deal.

I don’t know. There are some composers – I would guess, I’m not a scholar on such things- who honestly believe that their music is direct from God.

I believe that marriage is for people, not people for marriage. (To paraphrase a famous quote from Jesus re: the Sabbath) It is, or should be a gift as well as a mystery.

Incidentally, there is diversity regarding which day the Sabbath falls on – Saturday or Sunday. (We go to church on Saturday! But we don’t question the authenticity of faith on the part of those who go on Sunday.)

That’s a liberal for you.

]]> By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/2008/11/15/new-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-92681 Roger Bourland Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:39:59 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2008/11/15/new-spirit/#comment-92681 Agreed, but why do so many liberal religionists (meaning Jews, Christians, people of faith) hold onto this one fundamentalist view point, that marriage is only for one man and one woman? You don't have to answer that, but that is my frustration. There are indeed fundamentalist composers and songwriters who believe their music is the only good music, but fortunately there is no words from God that support that opinion. With marriage, there is. Agreed, but why do so many liberal religionists (meaning Jews, Christians, people of faith) hold onto this one fundamentalist view point, that marriage is only for one man and one woman? You don’t have to answer that, but that is my frustration.

There are indeed fundamentalist composers and songwriters who believe their music is the only good music, but fortunately there is no words from God that support that opinion. With marriage, there is.

]]> By: citrus http://rogerbourland.com/2008/11/15/new-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-92680 citrus Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:41:25 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2008/11/15/new-spirit/#comment-92680 "Music never promises eternal life or imposes crazy rules. Each person gravitates to the music they like, and there is no going to hell if you have different tastes. And, thank God, there is NO musical bible." Uh, what you describe here refers to an extremely limited form of religion called fundaentalism. Liberal faith knows nothing of such limitations. There certainly fundamentalist composers who make the same claims for their brand of music. Are they ministers or priests? I think not, except in their own minds. Give me a composer who is a composer - no more, no less. There is sufficient dignity in that. R. “Music never promises eternal life or imposes crazy rules. Each person gravitates to the music they like, and there is no going to hell if you have different tastes. And, thank God, there is NO musical bible.”

Uh, what you describe here refers to an extremely limited form of religion called fundaentalism. Liberal faith knows nothing of such limitations.

There certainly fundamentalist composers who make the same claims for their brand of music. Are they ministers or priests? I think not, except in their own minds. Give me a composer who is a composer – no more, no less. There is sufficient dignity in that.

R.

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