Saturday, June 06, 2009

Comme Au Premier Jour by Andre Gagnon

Listened to some pieces of Andre Gagnon. I don't know what to say except feeling blessed. Sometimes the ungratefulness of human beings worsens life more than the misfortune we experience. On some occasions where the seeming misfortune is in fact a blessing we lack the capability to perceive it as so and to acknowledge that we are blessed and strengthened by the sufferings that are sweet in their core. The musical pieces of Andre Gagnon's I just listened to are familiar but somehow strange to me, although I have listened to this Canadian composer-cum-pianist since my early ages. The solo of M. Gagnon might not be of the taste to a young man with an explosive mind who were surrounded by more bountiful Modern Romantic music in the 1980's. But now more than 2 decades have passed, when I listened to the piano that singularly produces the music, I feel something I have never felt before, that heavenly otherworldly melody that makes me immerse in somewhere not belonging here. It would be hard to believe that the world would come to perfect harmony in which every human is satisfied and perfected, no matter how much he has suffered in this corporeal life; but it would not be difficult to expect that happens if music of this great influencing power can be composed and rendered.