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.com

For 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.

Requiem

Some links for Grete Sultan, 1906-2005, a pianist who died at 99 on Sunday morning a week ago-- June 26, 2005:

Album with sound clips -- The Legacy, Vol. 1

Album with Tantum Ergo -- The Legacy, Vol. 2

The musical version of Tantum Ergo on the second Sultan album is by composer

Tui St. George Tucker,

1924-2004.  Her Requiem apparently premiered

at Appalachian State University on April 30, 2005.

For other material on theology and Appalachian State University, see

that day's Log24 entries

and also the April 25 entry,

Mathematical Style.

For more on music, theology, and Appalachia, see

the entries of Sunday, July 25, 2004.

Big Dreams

"For more than a century, Los Angeles has been synonymous with big
dreams. The Australian writer and critic Clive James said it this way.
'Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like… The fact remains that you
are already living in it before you get there.'"

-- Today's inaugural address by Mayor Villaraigosa

See also the previous entry.

Update of 2:24 PM July 2:

Yesterday afternoon I picked up a copy of George Steiner's Grammars of Creation I had ordered.  A check of Amazon.com to see what others had to say about this book yielded the following:

"Steiner's account of Hope as something exclusively transcendental and
relative to the future is poor and superficial: the person who hopes is
not only walking 'towards' Eternal Life, but is already walking 'in'
Eternal Life, walking the Kingdom."

-- Matías Cordero, Santiago, Chile

See also an entry of April 7, 2005, Nine is a Vine.

Shining Through

From Dogma --

"You see, Malloy, I'm writing a novel about Los Angeles.... It's a
fantastic place, you know, Malloy.... It has a Spanish name, with
religious Roman Catholic connotations...."

From timesonline.co.uk, quotes of the day on May 19, 2005:

"My granddaughter once said I have a big imagination. And I said, 'What’s a big imagination?,' and she said, 'You remember what never happened.'"

-- Isabel Allende, novelist, whose new book is based on the life of Zorro

"You all know I love LA, but tonight I really love LA."

-- Antonio Villaraigosa, voted in as the city’s first Hispanic mayor in more than a century, thanks voters

See also
  Log24 entries ending at midnight
  August 28, 2003, and
  Log24 entries ending at midnight
  May 19, 2005,
  as well as the following illustrations
  from a Monday entry and
  from the entry it links to:

 Dream of Heaven

  (See also 3/3/04 and

             10/27/03.)