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Was du geschlagen, Zu Gott wird es dich tragen! I was moved a few months ago by the story of Erik Varden's conversion in his book " La explosión de la soledad " [The Explosion of Solitude] (Monte Carmelo, Fonte, Burgos, 2021).  by Jaime Nubiola What brought him closer to God was the burst of beauty and truth he perceived in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 . Varden explains: "Hearing these words " Have faith: You were not born in vain / You have not suffered in vain ", something burst forth. The pounding insistence, 'not in vain, not in vain,' was irresistible. It wasn't just that I wanted to believe it. I knew it was true. It sounds trite, but at that moment, my consciousness shifted. With a certainty born neither of startled emotion nor cold analysis, I knew I carried something inside me that reached beyond my limits. I was aware of not being alone. There was no special enthusiasm or ecstatic inner movement. There were no tears. But I could no more...

by Cesar Munoz   Music is not an art and believe me, when we clarify this, many controversies will end. Music is not an art, music is a language and with that language we can make works of art, but we can also make things that are not art or things that are artistically irrelevant even though they are still music. What can be called art? We enter into another controversy that is important to define. Obviously this is something very subjective and that anyone who wants or needs to call themselves an "artist" will accommodate it to their convenience. But I think there are certain fundamental things that we could all agree on. When is music considered a true work of art? Let's start a bit by strengthening this idea that music is a language and that not necessarily anything that is done with that language has to be considered a work of art. What is a language? A language is a system by which the human being communicates. There is written language, body language, spoken la...