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“There is ultimate deprivation, devastation, injustice, and the madness of an illiterate, and ignorant crowd. We witness the grief about the powerful nation’s playground in the middle east and everywhere, about the oil industry, and the bullies of the world today. Meanwhile, the mothers are grieving for their sons, their daughters, their children. They are the architects, the gardeners, the creators, and they see their beautiful work in ruins. The rest of humanity is going to churches where in comfort they enjoy the sufferings depicted in music and art. My attitude is for Life, for the Reverence of Life (after Albert Schweitzer), and against the devastation of the nations, cultures, and at this very moment, the World. We have to be responsible, and take action before these possible acts will happen. We have to do this with our tools, in this case, with music. Sometimes we are winning, sometimes they are winning (Mstislav Rostropovich), but we cannot be silent. Our voice is needed here permanently, ceaselessly. But it is not necessarily efficient to revert to old rhetoric, it is not effective for today’s computer/ game/ gadget oriented minds. So many contemporary aesthetics have come into our society, and thus, new shapes and versions of these old ideas must be created. But, while we are talking right now, the Mother is already standing there, in the battlefield or in the undertaker’s comfortable office.” We welcome you to listen to excerpts from the world premiere of Ugis Praulins' "Stabat Mater". To read our full blog from Holy Week 2020, visit the Pro Coro Canada blog.
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