PRO PACEM
Textes, Art & Musiques pour la Paix

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• Jordi Savall
• Hespèrion XXI
• La Capella Reial de Catalunya
• Montserrat Figueras

• Fatema Mernissi
• Edgar Morin
• Raimon Panikkar
• Antoni Tàpies

“Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Hiroshima 6 August 1945, 8:15.
“[…] I looked around: although it was morning, the sky was dark as twilight, with dust and smoke rising in the air. I saw streams of ghostly figures, slowly shuffling from the centre of the city of Hiroshima towards the nearby hills. They were naked and tattered, bleeding, burned, blackened and swollen. Parts of their bodies were missing, flesh and skin hanging from their bones, some with their eyeballs in their hands, and some with their stomachs burst open, with their intestines hanging out. We girls joined the ghostly procession, carefully stepping over the Dead or dying. There was a deathly silence, broken only by the moans of the injured and their pleas for water. The foul stench of burned skin filled the air […]”
Setsuko Thurlow, “Hibakusha”, survivor of the Hiroshima bomb.

Cambrai, January 1517.
“I can understand and excuse animals attacking each other because of their ignorance, but men should recognize that war is necessarily and inherently unjust, for it usually affects not those who ignite and declare it, but almost always takes its heaviest toll on the innocent, on the poor people who stand to gain nothing from victories and defeats. Almost always it takes its heaviest toll on those who have no part in it, and even when the outcome of war is successful, the joy of some is but the suffering and ruin of others.”
Erasmus. The Complaint of Peace.

Barcelona, 1 July 2004.
It is difficult to live without external peace in the world around us. It is impossible to live without inner peace, without peace in our hearts. Music creates a space of peace, both within and outside us. Few people create music and some are able to perform it, but we can all listen to it; however, this third musical art has to be learned by creating an outer and inner silence. To listen to music, we must be at peace, and at the same time music is a source of peace. It is a vital circle.
Raimon Panikkar. Introduction to the concert Da pacem. (Universal Forum of Cultures).

+ information in the CD booklet
JORDI SAVALL
Bellaterra, beginning of autumn, 2012

Translated by Jacqueline Minett

Einstein was asked to predict what weapons would be used in a
Third World War. I am told that he answered:
“If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons,
the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.”

Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979)