{"id":15785,"date":"2013-11-07T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T12:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15785"},"modified":"2013-11-07T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:00:06","slug":"meditation-why-strive-for-newness-and-difference-when-we-can-just-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/11\/07\/meditation-why-strive-for-newness-and-difference-when-we-can-just-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation: Why strive for newness and difference when we can just be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/labyrinth1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15786\" alt=\"labyrinth1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/labyrinth1.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>I once found myself at a convivial dinner table conversation about travel, which works as a metaphor for the Western attitude toward music (and just about everything else).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The diners recited the countries they&#8217;d been to and all the different things they&#8217;d seen and experienced. Unspoken, yet somehow clear to me from every anecdote was how there was something missing, something each person had overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was home.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this tangentially by Manuel Hermia&#8217;s CD booklet note in a world music album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igloorecords.be\/IglooMondo\/albums\/le-murmure-de-lorient\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Le murmure de l&#8217;Orient<\/em><\/a> (Whispers of the Orient), and how music so often fails to recognize its own home, as well. I&#8217;ll leave you with his thought:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whereas over centuries, the West has produced the basis for a philosophy developed for reason and managed by it, the East has excelled in philosophical approaches whose wisdom comes from nothing more than the silence of the mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No need to travel for some suitable music, either, thanks to Toronto pianist Eve Egoyan&#8217;s compelling (for me, totally captivating) performance of late composer Ann Southam&#8217;s <em>Remembering Schubert<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g7m9mOhBSAk?rel=0\" height=\"113\" width=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once found myself at a convivial dinner table conversation about travel, which works as a metaphor for the Western attitude toward music (and just about everything else).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,31,36,81,47,51,63,64],"tags":[295,1211,2370,4114,6468,4116,4115],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/labyrinth1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-46B","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15790,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions\/15790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15785"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}