February 4, 2011

Playing our Song

The Instruments of Communion provide background music for the real life of the Anglican Communion. 

Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG

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9 comments:

John B. Chilton said...

Good one.

But the bigger question is, who is playing the instruments of communion?

February 04, 2011
June Butler said...

Pardon me, Tobias, but sometimes the sound is more like cacophony than music. :-)

February 05, 2011
Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG said...

Erik Satie once said that dinner music should never interfere with the sounds of knives and forks. We need more of what he called "furniture music" from the Instruments.

February 05, 2011
WSJM said...

Furniture music is better than elevator music.

February 05, 2011
June Butler said...

Bill, you stole my Muzak line.

Perhaps, to be a bit more au courant, we may speak of the music that you hear between punching numbers into your phone while awaiting something that's called "Customer Service", which provides little service except for finger exercise or voice exercise in shouting answers to to a disembodied voice.

...thus taking your thread a tad off topic. Sorry, Tobias.

February 05, 2011
Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG said...

I was thinking of a band continuing to play long after the dancers have sat down to dinner.

The real and vibrant life of the Communion, diminished as it is to the extent some have chosen to walk apart, continues to go on, whether primates meet, Lambeth confers, the Anglican council consults, or Canterbury focuses unity. And if the communion continues to exist in spite of the instruments, then they aren't really instrumental except as backup players...

February 05, 2011
Brother David said...

An ensemble is reported to have played the final hours of the Titanic.

February 05, 2011
WSJM said...

Dah-veed -- Yes, actually the phrase "rearranging the deck chairs" had crossed my mind!

February 05, 2011
MarkBrunson said...

The instruments are badly out of tune, and the music hardly fits the scene.

February 09, 2011

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