Playing For Change Teaching The World To Sing
Apr 14, 2009 in We Think
“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast”
wrote the popular late 17th Century English poet and playwright William Congreve.
A friend to, and a contemporary of Jonathan Swift, William Congreve’s words have not been more true since they were first written and first spoken on stage in his tragic play The Mourning Bride in 1697.
With all the drama, trauma, wars, rumors of wars, natural weather disasters and the economic hell some predatory humans put other humans through; making it unnecessary to experience punishment in an afterlife when there is hell on earth as reality. The existence of an organization known as Playing For Change which offers welcome musical relief is a soothing balm for our world weary souls. (more…)