It is important that the music is played. The music in itself creates its own universe and reveals a relationship with God. The New Japanese Composers,Akiri Nishimura, Mar.00,NY times. Proust calls the work of art the child of silence. Bonding Across Cultural Boundaries,Edward W.Said, NY times, 27th Feb 00.
Music is primal, rising out of silence.
Sometimes we do hear water talking. In listening to the river a kind of silence prevails, broken only by the rush of water over rocks. Such a silence is more like faint echoes, each a series of dim reverberations. They continue deep inside you, distant yet familiar. The language of the river is not any known language, but a language nonetheless.