The Sunday Musical Offering - Beethoven Leonore Overture Nº3

Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio is a journey from darkness to light, from despair to triumph, from sadness to unspeakable joy. I find myself in one of those emotional places where I need to be reminded that light triumphs over darkness and that the darkness will never overcome it. Beethoven’s music does that for me like no other.

This is a performance of the Leonore Overture Nº 3 in C major, Op. 72b performed at the Amnesty International Concert in 1976. The members of the Bavarian Broadcast Symphony Orchestra are under the baton of Leonard Bernstein. Celebrate the light!

Love One Another - Brian



PS - This is going to be a strenuous week for many and various reasons. While preparing spiritually for the challenges that lie ahead, the writing of Richard Rohr has brought me solace and strength. The following may indeed become the mantra for the journey:

"Remember this: no one can keep you from the second half of life except yourself. Nothing can inhibit your second journey except your own lack of courage, patience, and imagination. Your second journey is all yours to walk or to avoid. My conviction is that some falling apart of the first journey is necessary for this to happen, so do not waste a moment of time lamenting poor parenting, lost jobs, failed relationships, physical handicaps, gender identity, economic poverty, or even the tragedy of any kind of abuse. Pain is part of the deal. If you don’t walk into the second half of your own life, it is you who do not want it. God will always give you exactly what you truly want and desire. So make sure you desire, desire deeply, desire yourself, desire God, and desire everything good, true, and beautiful."

Adapted from Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, p. 160