Edgar Degas - Little Dancer of Fourteen Years / Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue - (Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart) / Katherine Mansfield - A Little Girl's Prayer

Edgar Degas - Little Dancer of Fourteen Years

Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue - (Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart)

 Katherine Mansfield - A Little Girl's Prayer

Grant me the moment, the lovely moment
That I may lean forth to see
The other buds, the other blooms,
The other leaves on the tree:

That I may take into my bosom
The breeze that is like his brother,
But stiller, lighter, whose faint laughter
Exhoes the joy of the other.

Above on the blue and white cloud-spaces
There are small clouds at play.
I watch their remote, mysterious play-time
In the other far-away.

Grant I may hear the small birds singing
the song that the silence knows...
(The Light and the Shadow whisper together,
The lovely moment grows,

Ripples into the air like water
Away and away without sound,
And the little girl gets up from her praying
On the cold ground)

Ivan Morley - Tehachepi (Sic) / Johann Sebastian Bach - Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich - Suite for cello N° 6 -PART I / Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Ivan Morley - Tehachepi (Sic)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich - Suite for cello N° 6 -PART I 

Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

1.

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΚΑΝΕΛΛΑΚΟΥ (KATERINA KANELLAKOU) - "ΣΤΙΓΜΗ ΜΟΥ" ("ΜΥ ΜΟΜΕΝΤ") / Michael Nyman - The Claim (The Exchange) / Friedrich von Schiller - The Favor Of The Moment

ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΚΑΝΕΛΛΑΚΟΥ (KATERINA KANELLAKOU) - "ΣΤΙΓΜΗ ΜΟΥ" ("ΜΥ ΜΟΜΕΝΤ")

 

Michael Nyman - The Claim (The Exchange) 

Friedrich von Schiller - The Favor Of The Moment

Once more, then, we meet
In the circles of yore;
Let our song be as sweet
In its wreaths as before,
Who claims the first place
In the tribute of song?
The God to whose grace
All our pleasures belong.
Though Ceres may spread
All her gifts on the shrine,
Though the glass may be red
With the blush of the vine,
What boots--if the while
Fall no spark on the hearth;
If the heart do not smile
With the instinct of mirth?--
From the clouds, from God's breast
Must our happiness fall,
'Mid the blessed, most blest
Is the moment of all!
Since creation began
All that mortals have wrought,
All that's godlike in man
Comes--the flash of a thought!
For ages the stone
In the quarry may lurk,
An instant alone
Can suffice to the work;
An impulse give birth
To the child of the soul,
A glance stamp the worth
And the fame of the whole.
On the arch that she buildeth
From sunbeams on high,
As Iris just gildeth,
And fleets from the sky,
So shineth, so gloometh
Each gift that is ours;
The lightning illumeth--
The darkness devours!