Augment News
A Message For Mary In The Music Of Tom
Saturday July 12, 2003
From the sonorous magnificence of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor to the uplifting harmonies of a Lennon-McCartney pop song, music has been used to express our yearnings for most of human history. Indian mystic Sri Chinmoy writes that music in its purest sense is religion, and there is no question that music has been used to celebrate and augment many a religious rite, from Pharaonic ancient Egypt to the Southern Baptists of the Mississippi.