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a deep all-encompassing reality expressed throu music, dance, and art. Something that can touch :;:
all. When I hear a West African drum ensemble, a
Javanese gamelan, an Indian music ensemble, an
McCoy Tyner's great quartet with Sonny Fortune,
Calvin Hill, and Alphonse Mouzon, I realize that
there can be meaning, and that these masters are
playing more than music, they are playing life at i
deepest.
In this path of life we find connections with people,
places, events, times, impressions. On our journey
we also lose many of those connections through
separation, failure, death, and change. Especially'
western industrialized society we can feel emp _',
separated from others, nature, the creator, our
ancestors, even from ourselves. Many world cui.
keep these connections alive through tradition
and ritual. In West Africa one powerful way'
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drum and dance drama, a shared remembran e
and honoring of a people's history and des' :,.
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