Monday, January 01, 2007
More about our Yuletide Celebrations...
One of the highlights of our Yuletide Celebrations occurred for my wife and I today.
It was watching the New Year Concert in Vienna ( Austria ), on television.
Unfortunately, we were not amongst the 2,000 people crammed into the fabulous Concert Hall, in the Austrian capital; but, as usual, we were amongst the 30,000+ people, who lost out, in the draw for tickets.
As always, the elegant hall was bedecked with a superb display of flowers; but what I find so fascinating, is the obvious pleasure all the musicians are getting from being totally enraptured in the music.
When my wife and I were younger, we really enjoyed ballroom dancing, especially Polkas and the Viennese Waltz. The music of the Strauss family had us remembering the delights of our youth, as we listened, tapping our the rhythm with our feet.
There is a magick in dance music that occurs when you are dancing, in step with your partner, the tune, and with everybody else on the floor, at the same time. When the whole room is doing the same steps at the same moment in time, something happens inside you and suddenly everything is right with the world.
You've raised your mind to a higher level than normal, and it is wonderful. Ask any dancer.
It is one of the most special feelings I ever enjoyed. If you’ve never experienced it, you’ve never lived.
It was watching the New Year Concert in Vienna ( Austria ), on television.
Unfortunately, we were not amongst the 2,000 people crammed into the fabulous Concert Hall, in the Austrian capital; but, as usual, we were amongst the 30,000+ people, who lost out, in the draw for tickets.
As always, the elegant hall was bedecked with a superb display of flowers; but what I find so fascinating, is the obvious pleasure all the musicians are getting from being totally enraptured in the music.
When my wife and I were younger, we really enjoyed ballroom dancing, especially Polkas and the Viennese Waltz. The music of the Strauss family had us remembering the delights of our youth, as we listened, tapping our the rhythm with our feet.
There is a magick in dance music that occurs when you are dancing, in step with your partner, the tune, and with everybody else on the floor, at the same time. When the whole room is doing the same steps at the same moment in time, something happens inside you and suddenly everything is right with the world.
You've raised your mind to a higher level than normal, and it is wonderful. Ask any dancer.
It is one of the most special feelings I ever enjoyed. If you’ve never experienced it, you’ve never lived.
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