Amanda: Holy Music

The experience of a concert is unlike anything in the world. The relationship between the musicians and their audience is something completely outside of the many human interactions we have discussed this semester. The artists feed off of the energy of the crowd, while the crowd is provoked to dance and sing along the more and more the performance goes on.

A very distinct experience occurs here, where the musicians present their artistic creation on stage in front of their audience and then they are actually able to see the way that it physically affects them. Attending a concert allows for the unique chance to simultaneously listen, see, and participate in the creation of the music made by the artists.

Although music is still bound by human limitations in forming holy art, it does point both the musician and the audience to that which is Wholly Other. The interaction between them involves so many differet types and levels of artistic expression which all strive to progress the I and Thou relationship which Buber presents. The experience of a concert combines dance, the first, most sacred art which Van Der Leew describes, with music, poetry and performance. For these reasons, it would make sense that the event of a concert is something that has affected me so much and been so incredibly attractive to me as I have gotten older and explored different types of musical expression.