Pandemic Maria Today Has The Savage Breast That Must Be Soothed Universally

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast[1]” – this is the first line of the play “The Mourning Bride” by British playwright & poet William Congreve, 1697 (Wikipedia).

We have lost the music. With a universal problem like the coronavirus, how do you solve a problem like Maria? Sing of the hills & apples!

Ha. Here is where The Song is The Soul of The Soil!

55 years ago – I was 24, single & a new graduate of the University of the Philippines’ College of Agriculture – when along with the rest of the world I celebrated the coming of “The Sound Of Music” with Julie Andrews as lead star, released 02 March 1965[2] (The Hollywood Reporter). (images from Hits Movies[3] and OSF[4])

But I did not know then what I know now, what I realize now. First, let us look at the Prelude to The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews dancefully singing

The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music…

Where is the sound of music coming from? The breeze. Where is the sound of the breeze coming from? The leaves of trees, the leaves of grass. And where are the trees and grasses coming from? The grounds.

So, the Sound of Music is really coming from The Soil!

Today, during these difficult times of the Coronavirus Pandemic all over the world, we have difficult times singing any song. Today, I realize that I must go back to Asingan High and sing – and teach – the sound of music again.

All the powers of the universal medical world will not, cannot bring us the lost health of millions of people treated and untreated for the coronavirus disease. But the powers of the universal agricultural world can. “Let thy food be thy medicine,” the Universal Father of Medicine Hippocrates said, “and medicine be thy food.” Good food. (And yes, we grow good apples in the Philippines now too!)

Where is the origin of the story told in “The Sound Of Music?” Austria, which is “largely mountainous and landlocked[5]” (Britannica). In 2001, the US Library of Congress listed it in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant[6]" (Wikipedia). That’s the film. About the setting and song, I Frank A Hilario find it naturally significant: All the music I appreciate comes from Mother Nature eventually.

The sound of music is really coming from the soil. And it is the soil that gives soul to the singer. No medicine can do that!

It is the good food from the good soil that gives good music to the composer that gives good health to the singer. And to the rest of us, now Souls in Purgatory!

We have to go back to Good Agriculture and nurse it back to its good health using its own resources. And where do we start? With our good mental resources!@517

 

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[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve

[2]https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sound-music-review-1965-movie-1090228

[3]https://movies.hitstv.com/movies/details.php?ID=209

[4]https://www.okspecialtyfruits.com/earth-day-the-future-of-produce-waste/

[5]https://www.britannica.com/place/Austria

[6]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music_(film)