Applause erupted from the filled Boettcher Concert Hall as Jennifer Koh walked onto the stage, carefully clutching her 1727 Stradivarius violin for a program of Baroque music composed by two contemporaries Bach and Vivaldi.
Guest artist Koh soon had the audience mesmerized with her ability to lift the notes from the paper, deftly translate these musical ideas into lengths of string and coax their vibrations to life. The reborn concerto emerged from its 300 year old Stradavari womb and reverberated throughout the hall to find each ear.
It was an exquisite moment for Emergence. This was the creation of ‘something more’ – the joyful sound of Valvidi’s Spring -from ’nothing but’ – the plant cells of dense cold climate European wood (just CO2, water, sunlight and a few other minerals) ingeniously crafted into a violin, bowed by ‘nothing but’ human cells of a talented vibrant women (born in Chicago of Korean parents) during a sensuous concert to stir the emotions of more than 2600 surrounding souls.
As the music and our visceral rings of appreciation expanded outward from planet Earth and rippled into deep space during this inspiring performance, how could the Universe not became a better place? Looking back on itself, we can only imagine our expanding Cosmos was feeling a bit prouder.
From Light… to Star Stuff … to Life… to Consciousness with musical nourishment of the Soul – just another reason for us to “Thank God for Evolution” and to whisper a prayer that we may acquire the wisdom for a sustainable existence on Planet Earth: May the niche that supports the life of music, continue to prosper. May the emergence of this cosmic gift be eternal.
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