Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@audio-b-dog - I don't do operas and the only time I've seen the symphony was with Metallica at Berkeley Community Theater and with a band, at the symphony hall, doing the music of Jerry Garcia. 

A number of years ago I decided to take a Gideon's bible from a hotel I was staying in and I read the old and new testaments from cover to cover just to see what all the fuss was about, and that passage probably stuck in my memory more than anything else (except for all that psychedelic stuff in Revelations and the instructions for building an ark). 'Lest they become as thorns in your side'.... 

The Jews were told by their God to take the Holy Land by force, killing everyone who lived there.

@audio-b-dog - and I believe that was when they returned to their ancestral home after wandering the desert for however long they wandered the desert for. 

@larsman 

To me the Bible is about everything that went wrong after  the suppression of women. I've read a lot of history outside the Bible, which is not strictly history, to come to that conclusion.

On the music front, It sounds like you're not a classical music guy. I'll try you on something else. This is a song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of 20th century's greatest compsers, IMHO. Patricia Barber sings and also plays the piano. I think her jazz piano is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHLJ2ITsnJQ

@mahgister 

I think we’ve gone far astray of music. If you lived close by I’d love to meet you in a coffee shop or whatever and discuss all of this. I feel bad, however, dominating this thread on music with philosophy. And I blame myself. I must not fall into the trap of talking about my overall beliefs again. I will keep my thoughts to music. 

@stuartk @larsman 

I am posting Schubert’s Piano Sonata 960. It is one of his most beautiful and captivating sonatas. Schubert died at 31. He left an amazing legacy for so few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPE-Iyj1Ago

@audio-b-dog 

Thanks for the Uchida Schubert link.  I enjoyed that!  

Speaking of spirituality within the context of religion seems to me a dead end, because so much of religion has little to do with various traditions’ original sources/intent.