"Our new program is centered on Yeats' poem Sailing to Byzantium. Evoking an image of the "holy fire as in the gold mosaic," it movingly portrays the journey of deepening, of understanding that, "An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing." Through its ancient pictures, it tells of the search we each face to find what lies beyond our "everyday self". Surrounding this journey are pieces by such poets and composers as Mary Oliver, Kathleen Raine, Debussy, Schumann, and Messiaen, the last panel of the Foundation Meditation by Rudolf Steiner, and some light-hearted explorations on the theme of "light."
