Patti Anderson's List: Research

• Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects.
• Quartet for the End of Time written by French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1940.
• prison guard who gave him paper and a place to compose, and fortunate to have musician colleagues in the camp, a cellist, a violinist, and a clarinetist. Messiaen wrote his quartet with these specific players in mind.
• even from the concentration camps, we have poetry, we have music, we have visual art;
• Art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are. Art is one of the ways in which we say, "I am alive, and my life has meaning."
• The first organized public expression of grief, our first communal response to that historic event, was a concert.
• ecovery was led by the arts, and by music in particular, that very night.
• Music can slip beneath our conscious reality to get at what's really going on inside us the way a good therapist does. 
• Music allows us to move around those big invisible pieces of ourselves and rearrange our insides so that we can express what we feel even when we can't talk about it.
• someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft. 
• The truth is you don't have anything to sell; being a musician isn't about dispensing a product,
• You're here to become a sort of therapist for the human soul, a spiritual version of a chiropractor, physical therapist, someone who works with our insides to see if they get things to line up, to see if we can come into harmony with ourselves and be healthy and happy and well. 

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