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    <p>Bob</p>
    <p>This poems reminds me of some recent reading in <u>The
        Psychology of Totalitarianism</u> by Desmet.  Niels Bohr
      concluded that only poetry can describe the absurd behaviour of
      elementary particles. "When it comes to atoms , language can only
      be used as poetry. <br>
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    <p>Art<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/25/22 2:19 p.m., Rob and Nora
      Anderson via craic wrote:<br>
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            <div>See below for a beautiful poem for Christmas Day.
               Light from Light.<br>
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                    <div>Rae Crossman recently wrote one of his greatest
                      poems to honour his friend and mentor, the
                      Canadian composer, Murray Schafer.  See below for
                      Rae’s tribute poem, “The Man Who Listened to the
                      Stars,” a poem that divined Schafer’s spirit.</div>
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                                        <div style="">R<b
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                                            Murray Schafer</b><span
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                                              href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Canada"
                                              title="Order of Canada"
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">CC</a> <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Conservatory_of_Music"
                                              title="The Royal
                                              Conservatory of Music"
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">FRCMT(<i>hon</i>)</a></span><span
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                                            font-size:18px">(18 July
                                            1933 – 14 August 2021) was a
                                            Canadian composer, writer,
                                            music educator, and
                                            environmentalist perhaps
                                            best known for his</span><span
                                            style="color:rgb(32,33,34);
                                            font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px"> </span><a
                                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Soundscape_Project"
                                            title="World Soundscape
                                            Project"
                                            style="font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px;
                                            text-decoration:none;
                                            color:rgb(11,0,128);
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                                            moz-do-not-send="true">World
                                            Soundscape Project</a><span
                                            style="color:rgb(32,33,34);
                                            font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px">, concern
                                            for</span><span
                                            style="color:rgb(32,33,34);
                                            font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px"> </span><a
                                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_ecology"
                                            title="Acoustic ecology"
                                            style="font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px;
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                                            moz-do-not-send="true">acoustic
                                            ecology</a><span
                                            style="color:rgb(32,33,34);
                                            font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px">, and his
                                            book</span><span
                                            style="color:rgb(32,33,34);
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                                            font-size:18px"> </span><i
                                            style="color:rgb(32,33,34);
                                            font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px">The Tuning
                                            of the World</i><span
                                            style="color:rgb(32,33,34);
                                            font-family:sans-serif;
                                            font-size:18px">(1977). He
                                            was the first recipient of
                                            the</span><span
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                                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_L%C3%A9ger_Prize"
class="x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" title="Jules Léger Prize"
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                                            moz-do-not-send="true">Jules
                                            Léger Prize</a><span
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                                              In his memoirs, <i>My Life
                                                on Earth and Elsewhere</i>,
                                              Schafer described serving
                                              as a novice deckhand
                                              aboard the <a
                                                href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_tanker"
                                                title="Oil tanker"
                                                style="text-decoration:none;
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                                                tanker</a> <i><a
                                                  href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Windsor"
class="x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" title="Imperial Windsor"
                                                  style="text-decoration:none;
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                                                  Windsor</a></i> in
                                              1955.<sup
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer#cite_note-3"
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                                          Born in <a
                                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnia"
                                            title="Sarnia"
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                                          Ontario, Schafer studied at
                                          the <a
                                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Schools_of_Music"
class="x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" title="Royal Schools of Music"
                                            style="text-decoration:none;
                                            color:rgb(11,0,128);
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                                            moz-do-not-send="true">Royal
                                            Schools of Music</a> in
                                          London, the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Conservatory_of_Music_(Toronto)"
class="x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" title="Royal Conservatory of Music
                                            (Toronto)"
                                            style="text-decoration:none;
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                                            moz-do-not-send="true">Royal
                                            Conservatory of Music</a> (in
                                          Toronto), and the <a
                                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto"
                                            title="University of
                                            Toronto"
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                                            of Toronto</a>. At the last
                                          institution he was a pupil of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Johnston_(composer)"
                                            title="Richard Johnston
                                            (composer)"
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                                            Johnston</a>.</p>
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                                          His music education theories
                                          are followed around the world.
                                          He started <a
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                                            title="Soundscape"
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                                          at <a
                                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fraser_University"
                                            title="Simon Fraser
                                            University"
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                                            moz-do-not-send="true">Simon
                                            Fraser University</a> in the
                                          1960s.</p>
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                                          Starting in 2010 a <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Listening_Day&action=edit&redlink=1"
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                                            Listening Day</a> organised
                                          by the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Listening_Project&action=edit&redlink=1"
                                            class="x_x_x_x_x_x_new"
                                            title="World Listening
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                                            Listening Project</a> has
                                          taken place annually on 18
                                          July, with the date chosen in
                                          honour of Schafer's birthday.<sup
                                            id="x_x_x_x_x_x_cite_ref-11"
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                                            H</sup></p>
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                                          <i>His most famous work is <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_(theatre)" title="Patria
                                              (theatre)"
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                                            Princess of the Stars</i> (1966—)<sup
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                                                        <div>The Man Who
                                                          Listened to
                                                          the Stars</div>
                                                        <div>A Tribute
                                                          to R. Murray
                                                          Schafer</div>
                                                        <div>by Rae
                                                          Crossman</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Listen to
                                                          the music of
                                                          the stars, he
                                                          said </div>
                                                        <div>A hundred
                                                          billon billion
                                                          notes of
                                                          light </div>
                                                        <div>Resonant
                                                          spiral
                                                          galaxies</div>
                                                        <div>Astral
                                                          arpeggios</div>
                                                        <div>A luminous
                                                          cosmic
                                                          composition </div>
                                                        <div>Proclaiming</div>
                                                        <div>Miracle</div>
                                                        <div>Miracle</div>
                                                        <div>Miracle</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Follow the
                                                          thread of
                                                          star-music, he
                                                          said</div>
                                                        <div>Give back
                                                          reverence for
                                                          radiance </div>
                                                        <div>Give back
                                                          light for
                                                          light</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Drumming at
                                                          the edge of
                                                          magic </div>
                                                        <div>Riding
                                                          thunder across
                                                          the sky</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Chanting a
                                                          pathway to
                                                          holiness </div>
                                                        <div>Learning
                                                          the language
                                                          of wind</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Dancing the
                                                          body past
                                                          fervour </div>
                                                        <div>Partnering
                                                          with prayer</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Give back
                                                          reverence for
                                                          radiance </div>
                                                        <div>Give back
                                                          light for
                                                          light</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Call it
                                                          mystery</div>
                                                        <div>Call it
                                                          sacred
                                                          mystery </div>
                                                        <div>Call it
                                                          Patria</div>
                                                        <div>Call it
                                                          home</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>But midst
                                                          the marvel
                                                          discord
                                                          sounds </div>
                                                        <div>There’s
                                                          anguish in the
                                                          forest</div>
                                                        <div>The trees
                                                          are falling
                                                          fast to the
                                                          blade</div>
                                                        <div>The rivers
                                                          are writhing
                                                          with toxins</div>
                                                        <div>And animals
                                                          lost with the
                                                          loss of the
                                                          wild </div>
                                                        <div>Desolation
                                                          sings descant
                                                          over the world</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Hold fast
                                                          to the thread
                                                          of star-music,
                                                          he said </div>
                                                        <div>Hold fast
                                                          to the
                                                          star-song of
                                                          wonder</div>
                                                        <div>The melody
                                                          of healing</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Be a voice
                                                          for the
                                                          trees...
                                                          exuberance in
                                                          your lungs</div>
                                                        <div>Be a voice
                                                          for the
                                                          rivers...
                                                          rapids in your
                                                          bloodstream </div>
                                                        <div>Be a voice
                                                          for the
                                                          animals...
                                                          wild with the
                                                          animal in you</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>The miracle
                                                          is not lost</div>
                                                        <div>Tune your
                                                          senses to the
                                                          world around
                                                          you</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>To the east</div>
                                                        <div>         
                                                           Dawn unfurls
                                                          a scroll of
                                                          golden
                                                          calligraphy</div>
                                                        <div>To the
                                                          south</div>
                                                        <div>           
                                                          Blackberries
                                                          astonish the
                                                          mouth with the
                                                          taste of sun</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>To the west</div>
                                                        <div>         
                                                           Twilight
                                                          pours molten
                                                          sky into lake
                                                          reflection</div>
                                                        <div>To the
                                                          north</div>
                                                        <div>         
                                                           Balsam
                                                          enchants the
                                                          air with a
                                                          fragrant spell</div>
                                                        <div>As above so
                                                          below</div>
                                                        <div>         
                                                           A luminous
                                                          cosmic
                                                          composition</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>The miracle
                                                          is not lost</div>
                                                        <div>Listen to
                                                          the music of
                                                          the stars, he
                                                          said</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Ecstatic
                                                          listening</div>
                                                        <div>That can
                                                          change your
                                                          life</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Ecstatic
                                                          living </div>
                                                        <div>On earth</div>
                                                        <div>And
                                                          elsewhere</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Give back
                                                          reverence for
                                                          radiance </div>
                                                        <div>Give back
                                                          light for
                                                          light</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Call it
                                                          mystery</div>
                                                        <div>Call it
                                                          sacred mystery
                                                          Call it Patria</div>
                                                        <div>Call it
                                                          home</div>
                                                        <div><br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <div>Rae
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                                                          August 2022</div>
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