And we start off the month with a set of short lyrics to a piece by Laurie Anderson called "Why I Love The Stars" which was performed live at the Chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-D'arc in Paris for a private concert of the same name as part of the Arte series last year.
Anderson is a national (and international) treasure and living legend. She is responsible for some of the most innovative music and musical inventions in the last one hundred years. I have seen her live many times over the last many decades (I saw her perform her "United States I-IV" in the 80s!) and whenever she is performing live in an area near me, I make an effort to attend. And I am always blown away by her storytelling, her presentation, her uniqueness, her musicality, and her astonishing ability to pinpoint aspects of culture and life from a new perspective, cutting to the heart of things in a devastating way (at the top of the Arte concert, she introduces herself as being from the former United States of America). This piece cuts to the heart of human nature and acts as a warning...and I wish it didn't.
Why I Love The Stars
by Laurie Anderson
You know the reason I really love the stars?
It's because
we cannot
hurt them.
We can't burn them
or flood them
or make them overflow.
We can't blow them up
or turn them out.
But we are reaching for them.
We are
reaching
for them...
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