Have a seat. Stretch out your legs. Close your eyes and ears. I shall say nothing for five minutes so you can think about Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. See, and this will be more perfect still, if you manage not to think in words, but rather create a state of feeling. See if you can halt the whole whirlwind and clear a space for the Fifth Symphony. It is so beautiful. Only thus will you have it, through silence. Understand! If I perform it for you, it will fade away, note by note. As soon as the first one is sounded, it will no longer exist. And after the second, the harmony will no longer echo. And the beginning will be the prelude to the end, as in all things. If I perform it you will hear music and that alone. Whereas there is a way to keep it paused and eternal, each note like a statue inside you.
~ Clarice Lispector, “Letters to Hermengardo” from The Complete Stories.
Notes:
- Listen to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
- Photo: Lustro / The mirror by Siguni Aga Ciszewska (via exercicedestyle)
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Interesting concept. I play piano, and for years, I rehearse the notes and the finger movements in my mind. It works as well as physically touching the keys. ☺
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Pianist. I could only dream. Good for you.
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It was my place of solitude in a very chaotic world. ☺
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WOW!! That is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
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I was moved by it too Carolann…
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I think and feel the same about many classical pieces. Being one with the music transcends thought.
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Agree! It whisks you away…
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