- Scott Ritter: War's Playlist / How music awakens us to the human cost of armed combat Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on January 22, 2023, 12:14 pm
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19 January 2023 (quote) Music touches people in different ways. For me, this outro is the perfect musical encapsulation of the journey of life, with Roy Bittan's melodious piano solo taking the role of the individual, starting life's journey alone, only to be joined by other instruments (people) met along the way, their separate chords combining, becoming deeper, more complex, and more beautiful as the song - life - progresses. Throughout the song the piano is working to be heard, the constant struggle of the individual to set his or herself apart from the crowd, only to find that it (he/she) is in fact inseparable from what is, when all said and done, the magnificent concert of life. The outro runs for a full five minutes, each sound as beautiful as the one that preceded it. If the average life well spent approximates 80 years, then every 45 seconds of this song represents ten years of life. The average age of a soldier who dies in battle is around 20 years. Now imagine this outro cutting off at the one-and-a-half-minute mark, and think of all the beauty that would have been left unheard, never to be experienced. That is what war does to a life - cuts it short, with all the promise and potential left unfulfilled. What a waste. (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/wars-playlist |
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