Timeless music

Title

Timeless music

Creator

Carreon, Jorge A.

Language

English

Source

February 11, 1970

Year

1970

Subject

Music appreciation

Rights

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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Timeless Music There is a very special kiutd of music which I hope vuil find a great if not a fjdal appeal to whoever I cks it. All for the better for everyone as we shall see. I refer to the oldest kind of music, and also the most modern. It is, how ever, not contemporary: tne Past and the Future find it more common. It is the music for and of the Wingless and the Super** birds. It is Timeless Music. In the most primitive communi ties in Africa, Australia, and Asia, music plays the’ vital function of providing the most suitable form of communication among the peo ple themselves and of course rmong the mortals and the spirits. The religious rite always basically accompanied by some sort of chanting. Even in the archaic ci vilizations, as in India, songs (in cuarter — and smaller tones) and instrumental improvisations were never absent. In our time, music has become quite complicated and noisy. It is not anymore solely sacred music that we have but also the profane. The traditional JEREMY FLINT’S BRIDGE CLASS * Note the singleton JOHN. TARINS VIEW. TO’ OPEN THE SECOND SUIT, Of AMOMDS INTO ACCOUNT THE POSITION OF YOUR SINGLETON. IT IS A MISTAKE. IN MV church chants have become in fested by folksongs and the like. Profane music such as jazz, pop and rock, and even "serious con temporary" has battered our lives. Nevertheless, in all these instan ces, music serves the function of communication — the expression of the striving of man for a mean ingful way of lifa And yet, all music pieces ever produced so far are imperfections. The symphonies of Beethoven and the contrapuntally correct fugues of Bach are imperfections. Their music does not at all compare with the Timeless Music. In fact, the music of the composers we call “masters” are merely mimics, like clowns which have the pecu liarity of being funny and pathetic at the same time. The Evoica Sym phony becomes a valiant struggle and a courageous affirmation of the dignity of what man is. Great. But why were the String Quartets composed after this symphony: do not these Quartets look into the future? Are these not visionary? These music masters' paradise must lie somewhere else since they never cease their search. They look back-and-forward, think there-ana-later. Where is the Ideal? The early troubadours thought it was found in their poetic lyri cism, so .hey sang to hearts over brimming. Palestrina thought thorough voice leading would do RESPONDS TWO HEARTS, AS SUE VERY WEU. MAY, YOU WILL BE FORCED TO RE-BID YOUR MOTH-SATfN SPADES, BECAUSE A BID OF THREE DIAMONDS WOULD DENOTE A VERY MUCH STRONGER By Jorge A. Carreon it. Bach added homophony. Mozart emphasized line and form. Beetho ven combined everything. The Ro mantics flooded themselves with their own tears. Stravinsky thought he had hit the pot with his “Rites of Spring” only to tread again la ter on the old battlegrounds of the Ciassicists. Anton Webern concen trated on microcosmic forms and emaciated harmony. Stockhausen uses electronics. The hippies, sti mulants and sex. It takes a lot of courage to com pose music. It also takes much brain and patience. But it takes all these and much more to appre ciate the Timeless Music, and es pecially to go into it. One must be honestly prepared and willing to do it. One must have grace from the Wingless and the Superbirds. Man has always striven for things absolute. He will always be striving for things absolute. It seems that Life for him is an allor-nothing proposition, even as he is well aware that perfection here on earth can only be but poorly approximated. Man has just got to keep on and plough through. He can not do otherwise. Well, actually he can do other wise one thing, the only one. He can write the Timeless Music — the music not of notes but of rests. He can Die . . . Which reminds me of Kanakruschti, who said, "Si lence like the Wingless Dove it flew — motionless. And Timeless in Peace was the Universe.” TUE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE HAVE A &INGLSTOM SPAPS Of A SINGLETON HEART. HERE IT IS EMINENTLY CORRECT TO OPEN THE BIDDING IRRESPECTIVE OF PARTNER’S RESPONSE. YOU CAN CONFIDENTLY INTRODUCE YOUR MAKING A MARGINAL 0PEWIM6BID, MOTE WHERE THE SINGLETON IS AND WHETHER OR The Case Method (Continued, from page 4) with the professors.” Asked whether there is much difference between the Filipino students and American students he said not much as long as they are given the same educational opportunity. “But this I found. The Filipino student respects authority and grey hairs more, so that he tends to take what his professors say hook, line and sinker. But this is true everywhere in Asia, I think.” AIM’s aim is three-fold. To pro vide highly competent and care: fully selected candidates, without regard to their financial ability to pay their education, the opportu nity to receive professional, grad uate level, full-time training in managerial leadership. Since not everyone who wants to further their studies can be admitted to the Harvard Business School ab road (only 750 students are admit ted each year to the school, and 10 per cent of said total is allotted to foreign students) AIM intends to give the same training to Aslan students with the same curricu lum, same courses and same teach ing method — the case method. “We do not need valedictorians but students who have leadership (they are iwo quite different thing). True we are tough in the admission office, but afterwards, when they have hurdled the ex aminations we are generous to them. The work load is heavy, about 70 hours a week. That is why we do not accept working stu dents. But we do our level best to get students who have been admit ted, to graduate them. So far out of the 96 students admitted this school year, only four dropped the course for reason of health. If the future of the school depends on the students, then I can proudly say that it will be a success.” We asked Dr. Fuller how things are going financially for both the students (when they finally are graduated) and for the teaching staff. “Great on both counts. Already some of our students are being eyed by a number of business con cerns. As for the teaching staff, we had some difficulties in keep ing them after they return from training in Harvard. Some of our would be faculty members wind up in the offices of several business houses in Makati. But now we have the problem licked. We raised their pay. The average AIM professor’s pay is way, way above those of fered by other schools or business establishments. Still, we have to admonish the businessmen not to ‘cut down the tree but to take the fruits which we will <renerously offer n clone.’ Page 6 Herald Mid-Week Mogozine Wednesday, February 11, 1970

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