Classical Music for Aficionados

It’s more your Glory.

I find among very intelligent people I know they use spiritual all the time.

Most are people who can not understand why if there is a God why he allows

the horrows of our world .I have to turn my head when I see a 3 yr child weighs

ten pounds and a 13 year old girl is less than four 4 ,ft tall on a "Save the Child",,which is my chief fund ,, ad on TV .

Or why is my son or my mother or my wife have, cancer .

And a thousand other things. I don’t have the answer.

All I can think of , is mankind has proved there is infinity and if there is a God

all the Sorrows of this earth are less than the blink of his eye .

And there is always Pascal.

I rarely encounter a man so mature and deep in all fields of human interest than Pascal...

Reading him is a stunning awakening on all scale...And he was the greatest prose french writer , he transform french prose in an "art of the fugue"...

There is a deep link between Bach music and Pascal thinking...Even if more than 20 years separate the death of one and the birth of the other...

The audible presence of God in the music of Bach answer to the more than probable existence of the Designer in his famous mathematical "wager" and the inner heart consuming fire of love in man....

The wager idea was never understood clearly by most thinkers....Most said that this was a very simplistic argument about God existence...

But it was never intended to be an argument, but a little spark of fire able to ignite the whole world... Why?

Because if someone is able to think about the infinite only one time he will never be able to erase the idea or this experience after it was born in him...

The wager is the wood, and the stones which rubbed with one another will ignite a fire...it is more potent than the St Anselm ontological argument, because it is an appeal to an existential gesture of the thinking...Not only a logical argument....

If you create the idea of infinity one time in your imagination, going back before this moment will become for ever impossible...

Like in the history of mathematic the creation by Cantor of the infinite actualities...

I am surprized that there is no musical work i know of dedicated to Pascal....

It's midnight and  I'm tried  but i think I read Bach had fantastic math power in his head hence counter-point etc

also  Think that Brahms read Pascal - he did have an IQ  off the chart

Oh some drunk or drugy might forget but if you read Pascal  your' likely smart

    enough to remember

Viva La Quebec !

Leibniz improved the computing machine created by Pascal and designed his own one and created the calculus after reading Pascal..Leibniz was very admirative of Pascal genius ...

What is stunning is less the I.Q. of Pascal than his very mature deep thinking in all matter, spirituality included... Even Kafka or Borges could have learned from Pascal imagination of the infinites manifested in every day life mysteries....

Brahms is so great musician and serious spirit i am not surprized that he appeciated Pascal....His creation for chorus are my favorite works...And i am in love with Zymerman/Bernstein concerto number 2 for piano....Because of Zymerman subtle magical  touch more than for  Bernstein  whom is great here for sure...

This work for me embodied late popular 19 century "salon" romanticism...Just a so beautiful concerto that make shadow on  many others  ...Some work are so perfect that listening anything  ressembling them after them is  very difficult...I never was able to replace this concerto by anything else in my heart....

This particular flabbergasting and imperative supreme interpretation save me from my Brahms obsession about my favorite piano concerto the second one...

Played like this Beethoven shine like  perhaps never before and like rarely  after....The pianist is mature and stupendous by his sense of hues and power ... At the level of the few giants of the piano...