Music is important in life. It gives an certain light to live."I make music because if I did not, I would die. I record, because it’s in my blood. I hear sounds all the time. It is almost a curse: to know you can always make something new" (Prince)
"Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Music is the architecture of the unspeakable" (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Art is a sort of disease" (Giacomo Puccini)
Puccini (1858-1924) was seventeen, when he noticed the opera Aida was played in Pisa. The masterpiece of Verdi. He had to walk 30 kilometers to see the opera. Besides, the opera was very expensive for the youngster. That day, he decided to become an opera composer like Verdi.
I think similar thoughts can possible happen at performances in my hometown Kerkrade.
Above, you can see some impressions of Kerkrade, during the last WMC (World Music Contest).
