Wednesday, May 25, 2011

COSMIC WISDOM FOR UNDER $20

You can travel to a mountaintop guru or spend time in a hillside monastery, but one of life's greatest wisdoms can more easily be found by simply playing a CD of one of Broadway's classic musicals. Here the concentration required of you is not on things above, just on those spectacular tenors and sopranos hitting the big notes in those smashing musical numbers.

They are uncredited on the album and certainly weren't featured in the theater's lobby photos. But listen again and it's clear how their soaring voices make those numbers work. Sustain the flow of the show.

Now here's the lesson.

The show is closed...the run is over...the cast has dispersed... these few nameless faceless voices from heaven are back on the streets auditioning for their next job. Not only the way of show business, it's the way of the world. From headliners to chorus liners, the marquee lights may blaze only once in a lifetime.

However, this doesn't have to be grieved over. It's just the way life is. Learning this is smart. Adjusting to this is wisdom. Remembering that you once made a difference, that's serenity.


2 comments:

  1. Of all things.... music, in any form, is the one thing that transcends the boundaries of time. I still remember sitting up in a balcony at the Auditorium Theater and just being mesmerized by the score for Phantom Of The Opera. That score has always stuck in my head..... it's so poignant and it taps into all of the themes of the production itself; jealousy and vengeance and envy. Cheers my friend.

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  2. Hey, I felt the same emotions in that same theatre for that same production. But, as I say, those nameless voices in the chorus will -- like most of us in life -- have to know they made a difference even tho the world knows not their name.

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