De Stijl

From De Materie, an opera by composer Louis Andriessen and Robert Wilson

Gaelic psalmody

Saw this on Facebook somewhere. Sorry for the lack of attribution.

Bhajan

Stravinsky’s Symphony of the Psalms

Just to show that all Philip Glass doesn’t sound the same…

A collaborative work done in part with the African artist, Foday Musa Suso

Here is some more from Suso:

The immeasurable space in the spirit

The end of the Robert Wilson / Philip Glass “opera”, Einstein on the Beach

Man is an earthly star enveloped in a cloud, but a star is a heavenly man….

Therefore leaving behind the narrow confines of this shadow, return to yourself; for thus you will return to spaciousness. Remember that there is an immeasurable space in the spirit, but in the body one could say infinite constriction. This indeed you can see from the fact that numbers, which are akin to the nature of spirit, increase without limit but do not diminish; whereas there is a limit to the expression of the physical, to its contraction there is no limit.

-Marsilio Ficino, found in Meditations on the Soul

More classical Indian dance

So when the glitt’ring Queen of Night

Henry Purcell

De Profundis

-Michel Richard Delalande

DEVUELTO

A la cara de mi hijo
que duerme, bajan
arenas de las dunas,
flor de la caña
y la espuma que vuela
de la cascada…

Y es sueño nada más
cuanto le baja;
sueño cae a su boca,
sueño a su espalda,
y me roban su cuerpo
junto con su alma.

Y así lo van cubriendo
con tanta maña,
que en la noche no tengo
hijo ni nada,
madre ciega de sombra,
madre robada.

Hasta que el sol bendito
al fin lo baña:
me lo devuelve en linda
fruta mondada
¡y me lo pone entero
sobre la falda!

-Gabriela Mistral