Herbert Von Karajan, The golden musician.

I sit down in front of my computer and I begin to watch a musical video which orchestra is conducted by the magnificent Karl Von Karajan. The concert starts with a forte beginning and I begin to smile. This man, old and decrepit, with great happiness but concentration moves his hands leading the orch estra and the public at the same time. Is just incredible how this old man, without opening his eyes and without any mistake, can guide every single note, every sharp or flat.

My admiration for him is old as myself. He drove me through the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky; he taught me how to play and how to direct a big orchestra as Bach would do it. He just demonstrated that a musician is not only who plays an instrument, but who puts all its energies and enthusiasm in the work. Karajan was that proof of passion, as we can see in all of his productions. He was not only a man who had in charge the philharmonic of Berlin, he was the inspiration for them; he was the reason they perseverated in music and the reason they tried to convert every work in an universe with bright lights and perfect geometry. Nevertheless, he didn’t just inspire all of his musicians, but the whole world.

Behind his strong face of concentration existed a bright mind with a great heart. His eyes hardly closed by perfectionism hided the soul of a modernist; a modernist who tried to make music a perfect and geometrical interpretation of daily life. Just behind this, we could find one of the greatest musicians in the whole world. In April of this year we celebrated 100 years from his birth. The birth of a genius and the birth of the modern interpretation for music.

Bach.

As the grat Beethoven said
You are not river, you are sea
You are not world, you are universe
You are not a man, you are Bach

Your so complex notes
Oh ambiguous harmony
Your so celestial voices
O! great musical monster.

Under your notes of perfection
The old pianist rejoyses
Under your sharps and flats
The lazy student works.

The Saint Of The Day

Saint Januarius

( 275-305)Bishop of Naples, was martirized in the year 305 AD by the Diocletian persecution. Was captured during a visit incarcerated deacons at the sulphur mines of Puteoli, the modern Pozzuoli. After many tortures, including being thrown to lions in Pozzuoli's Flavian Amphitheater, he was beheaded at Solfatara along with his companions, who included Festus (deacon); Desiderius (lector); Sossius; Proculus of Pozzuoli; Acutius; and Euticius. ( Wikipedia)

The Book of the Week.

The Name Of The Rose

This amazing book inspired in the genial Sherlock Holmes has as setting an incredible abbey in North Italy in the year 1327 where an intrepid and cultured monk and his disciple Adso Of Meck is sent to investigate the murder of a the illustrator of the abbey. In this story, written by the genial Umberto Eco in the 1980's, we can see the audacity and valiantly of Friar William of Baskerville in his hunger of justice and knowledge, which took him into the forbidden Library itself. In his way he meets some very interesting people like Friar Jorge of Burgos, who turns to be a strict and closed-mind monk and an omniscient chauvinist man. Friar William, educated in the most prestigious university of England at the time, has to pass through obstacles and very suspicious situations.
I hope you all will enjoy this daughter of Philosophy, history and genius in this fall.

Our Lady Of The Angels Monastery.

This is Our Lady Of The Angels Monastery. Irondale, Alabama. Founded by Mother Angelica. A place to pray and celebrate the good news of Salvation.

Enjoy the English- Latin Holy Mass every day LIVE! in your channel EWTN (8:00 ET) OR visit http://EWTN.com

The Composer Of the Week.

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Thuringia, Germany in 1685 (the same year as Handel). His music has been admired and loved through the centuries. This man, whose mathematic is reflected in hundreds of works charged of baroque contra punt, has been the inspiration for posterior musicians. Today, his complex system and structure is the base for modern music.
Born in a family of musicians, at the death of his parents he went to live with his uncle Johann Christoph who was also his teacher in music studies . Johann Sebastian developed a strong ear for music and a great personality in composition. He studied a lot of different French and Italian composers to prepare to succeed in the beauty of arts and began to compose beautiful church works in a beautiful style we can admire today , style which was criticized by lots of people interested in a new kind of music, which was monophonically less artistic (different from Bach’s polyphonical perfection). Today, that kind of music is not listened nor admired, but Bach’s still in the peak of western music

THE SAINT OF THE DAY. Saint Agustine of Hippo.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint of the Holy Catholic Church, is considered one of the most important saints and philosophers ever, not only in the churches is listened but in the whole intellectual world.
Today, August 28th, 2009 is his festivity in the Catholic Church, not only as a Saint but as a philosopher. He wrote lots of letters, books and sermons that made him famous and glorious. His intelligence and wisdom is today respected – even in other religions-; also, his phrase of “ Crede Ut Intelligas” and “ intelligas ut Crede” are the summary of his doctrine of Believe to think and think to believe.