Fairfax Music: "In The Tradition & Beyond"

11/25/2025

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
- Aaron Copland
“Art is how we decorate space;
Music is how we decorate time.”
- Jean Michel Basquiat

11/24/2025

“One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

11/21/2025

11/17/2025

11/16/2025

Matthew 24:6-8 "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains."

11/13/2025

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ”
- Marcel Marceau

11/13/2025

“Art is how we decorate space;
Music is how we decorate time.”
- Jean Michel Basquiat

11/13/2025

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.”
― Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

https://fairfaxmusic.org/blog/notes-on-blackfeet-by-richard-fairfax

11/12/2025

“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

11/12/2025

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