It’s time to say goodbye to the old year and the best way to do so seems to be with music. For
“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto Second Movement
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copland
Kansas: Carry On My Wayward Son
“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein
Anuna: One Last Song
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Beetles: Let It Be
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Orla Fallon:Siuil A Run
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu
Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
John Dowland: The Frog Galliard (lute)
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
― Maria Augusta von Trapp
Gypsy Kings: Montana
“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
― Alfred Tennyson
Andrea Bocelli: Con te Partiro “Time to say goodbye”
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot
This playlist comes from several sources, recommendations on Reddit, The Mighty and personal preferences. In your comments, please add to this list.
Somewhere in Beethoven’s 5th and 6th symphonies, I float into a trance, and come out the other side feeling more peaceful and relaxed.
With the 9th symphony, I feel joy and hope and find myself air conducting to the music.
Bach speaks to me at an intellectual level.
I listen to Enya, reminds me of new beginnings, probably as I listened to her music when I gave birth to my children decades ago.
I like to listen to Galician music, such as Milladoiro, Luar na Lubre, Berrogüetto, Carlos Nunes… For instance:
http://bit.ly/2lQOust
Beautiful choices. Thank you. Kathleen
I listen to “Skin” by Sixx A.M. It reminds me that even though I’m battling my issues I am more than my skin.
Chuck Mangione’s (12 minute version) “Land of Make Believe” and Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me”
Haleluia from Shrek