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Topic: VIDEO: Meditation  (Read 1176 times)

Offline lateromantic

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VIDEO: Meditation
on: August 07, 2016, 03:38:22 PM
As I conceive it, meditation is not a state of impersonal coldness, devoid of emotional attachment:  Rather, it includes all of the passion that naturally ensues from deep awareness.  You cannot attain a full awareness of life and remain indifferent to it.  

This Meditation was one of my earliest piano works (1985).  It starts modestly enough, like a quiet Chopin nocturne, and then...as it develops...all the passions of Romanticism are unleashed.  The piece was a breakthrough for me as a composer:  All the thematic material is tightly and organically interconnected, yet the work comes across as free-flowing and spontaneous.  I recorded it not long after it was written, and then recently I digitized it and created this video.





Please let me know your comments!
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Offline ajlongspiano

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Re: VIDEO: Meditation
Reply #1 on: August 09, 2016, 10:30:32 PM
One of my favorite works by you, Mr. Cunningham!

Best,

AJ
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Offline lateromantic

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Re: VIDEO: Meditation
Reply #2 on: August 11, 2016, 02:17:00 PM
Thanks, AJ!

Checking in this morning, at first I thought there was something wrong with the YouTube embedding for my post, but now I see that *none* of the YouTube embeds are showing up in this forum this morning.  I checked on another computer, and the problem was there too.  Wonder what's going on?
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Offline lateromantic

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Re: VIDEO: Meditation
Reply #3 on: August 13, 2016, 02:16:03 PM
Does anyone know why YouTube embeds no longer work on this forum?  Anyway, the video is at the link below.

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