July 3, 2005
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Intersections
1. Blue Ridge meets Black Mountain,
2. Vertical meets horizontal in music,
3. The timeless meets time in religion.
Details:
1. Blue Ridge, Black Mountain
“Montreat College is located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
of Western North Carolina…. The Black Mountain Campus is… three miles from the main
campus in the historic town of Black Mountain.”Black Mountain College was “established on the Blue Ridge Assembly grounds
outside the town of Black Mountain in North Carolina
in the fall of 1933.”
USA Today, May 15, 2005, on Billy Graham:“MONTREAT, N.C. — … It’s here at his… homestead, where the Blue Ridge
meets the Black Mountain range east of Asheville, that Graham gave a
rare personal interview.”See also the following from June 24:
“No bridge reaches God, except one…
God’s Bridge: The Cross.”— Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,
according to messiahpage.comFor some remarks more in the spirit of Black Mountain than of the Blue
Ridge, see today’s earlier entry on pianist Grete Sultan and composer Tui
St. George Tucker.2. Vertical, Horizontal in Music
Richard Neuhaus on George Steiner’s
Grammars of Creation:”…
the facts of the world are not and will never be ‘the end of the
matter.’ Music joins grammar in pointing to the possibility, the
reality, of more. He thinks Schopenhauer was on to something when he
said music will continue after the world ends.‘The capacity of
music to operate simultaneously along horizontal and vertical axes, to
proceed simultaneously in opposite directions (as in inverse canons),
may well constitute the nearest that men and women can come to absolute
freedom. Music does “keep time” for itself and for us.’”3. Timeless, Time
A Trinity Sunday sermon quotes T. S. Eliot:
“… to apprehend
The point of intersection of the timeless
With time, is an occupation for the saint.”See also The Diamond Project.
Update of July 8, 2005, 3 AM:A Bridge for Private Ryan
In memory of actor
Harrison Richard Young, 75,
who died on Sunday, July 3, 2005
