The seemingly endless unmonetized virtual concerts on YouTube only make me think of the concert Vicky and I were so fortunate to see in person on March 3 – The Indigo Project, by Tafelmusik and Suba and Trichy Sankaran and two student choirs. With no living, breathing encore performance on the horizon, this concert has become a treasured memory. It is likely the only classical concert I’ve seen whose highlight was a drum solo. The name of the drum escapes me – it was a word like the thrum of Trichy’s fingers on the skin of the drum. He and the drum became one.
The indigo theme was picked up this week in my contemplation of the evening sky and in the draft of a poem pulled from those contemplations (Reading Room). Wallace Stevens said the human mind looks for composition, in art and writing. Pleasing found composition drew my eye, the gentle colours, calm at end of day. As the dharma teaches, the open sky (mind) prevails, regardless of the intervening weather (oh, those churning thoughts).
