Un musicien fascinant

C’est ridicule, mais à chaque année, j’essaie de trouver une musique ou un chant de circonstance sans référence à Jésus-Marie-Joseph, au Père Noël, aux sapins-boules-guirlandes-neige-foyer-eggnog et bébelles. Inconcevable. Nativité oblige. Mais, j’ai trouvé une interprétation de l’Ave Maria Bach/Gounod originale, avec en bonus une note d’humour.

Bobby McFerrin - Ave Maria

Yo-Yo Ma disait de McFerrin : «Il n’y a aucun instrument de musique qu’il ne peut pas imiter. En fait, son corps est un instrument de musique!»

Un musicien qui milite pacifiquement pour la créativité, exprimée sans autocensure à travers la musique – voix, instruments, etc.

“As musicians, we transcend technique in order to seek out the truths in our world in a way that gives meaning and sustenance to individuals and communities. That’s art for life’s sake.” ~ Yo-Yo Ma
 


Et puis, que de vaines discussions sur les religions en ce moment. Une espèce d’antinomie universelle. Si les croyants se contentaient de vivre leur religion dans leur propre sanctuaire intérieur et de pratiquer ce qui est au cœur des messages desdits prophètes, c’est-à-dire l’amour du prochain (ou à défaut, le respect), il me semble qu’on aurait un petit peu plus de paix sur cette (jadis plus belle) planète.

Alors je vous propose cet entretien avec McFerrin – il explique sa conception de la spiritualité. Beaucoup de sagesse.

Bobby McFerrin Interview – Religion and ethics News Weekly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLMRHpw-QBs

“To me, just being is a religious experience. Just being is holy.”

“I always felt that artists have a huge responsibility because culture looks at them as a way of interpreting what’s going on. So I think it’s important for artists to be redeeming, to offer things that are redeeming, things that will lift people, encourage them. So you do have to be careful with what you say, with what the material is, because there is a lot of material out there that... bleeds violence.”

McFerrin says that one of his job descriptions as an artist is moving people to joy. “If there’s any one thing I want it’s for people to have that sense of joy, the joy that I feel just being able to sing.”

“Music has a way of communicating … that language does not. It can go past language.”

He frequently works with young people, trying to help them see the power of music. It’s a lesson his mother taught him when he was a boy. “She knew how music was a healing balm because whenever I was sick she’d give me two things: she’d give me medicine for my aches and pains and she’d give me music for my spirit,” he recalls. “Music does have incredible power to rearrange your insides, rearrange your thoughts, and heal your body. Music is about transformation and transcendance.”

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