International Music Day 2025 at The Polymath
Today, under the gentle pulse of the Star, I call Euterpe — the muse of music — to sit with us. She carries both the quiet thread and the torrent: the lullaby, the lament, the song of uprising, the intimate confession.
Four songs today:
José Afonso — Cantigas do Maio
A steady vessel of sound, but within it, a voice that carries both fire and tenderness.
Franz Schubert — Erlkönig (Goethe’s ballad, 1782), sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with Gerald Moore
One voice inhabiting many — father, child, death — the uncanny power of music to embody what the eye cannot see.
Carole King & Gerry Goffin — Will You Love Me Tomorrow, sung by The Shirelles
A melody woven with longing, written in the space between certainty and hope, carried forever by women’s voices.
Suede — Daddy’s Speeding
A dream in gasoline. Piano and whisper, rupture and crash. James Dean’s ghost rides again, reminding us that music also lives in the dangerous edges of desire.
Euterpe reminds us: music is not only for delight. It is memory, prophecy, and presence. Sometimes it steadies the Grail in our hands; sometimes it tips us into the storm.
You can read more about the three first songs on my Mondo Bizarre Magazine.
✨ Happy International Music Day.
image: Euterpe, the Muse of Musuc anc Lyric Poetry
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