Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and Mirror
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Artist: Loreena McKennittEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
- Mystic's Dream
- Bonny Swans
- Dark Night of the Soul
- Marrakesh Night Market
- Full Circle
- Santiago
- Ce He Mise le Ulaingt? (The Two Trees)
- Prospero's Speech
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Free Music Review: The Two Trees
Hit: 5 Stars
For nothing else, buy this CD for track #7, The Two Trees. The poem with Words by William Butler Yeats and Music by the incredible Loreena McKennitt.
It tells the tale of the progression from innocent childhood, to cynical old age. How we can become bitter, brittle and old before our day if we stare into the glass of cynicism rather then remember that in our hearts we don't change, that we can remain children, if we but turn our hearts to tenderness and not dwell on our disappointments and the disappearance of youth.
"Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the winged sandals dart
Thine eyes grow full of tender care;
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart."
But the bitter glass of cynicism, as Yeats describes it, is a subtle influence, set to rob us of our joy and prevent us from living within our hearts.
"In the dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat"
These poets words set to Lorrenna's haunting arrangement, call to something deep in us, something we have given away, but we can and we will recall its promise, that we are born from and for greatness, joy, and that our struggles do have a purpose, to reunite us to a creation we cannot see, nor touch, but that we may feel, if we but lift up our eyes from the bitter glass and listen to our hearts.
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