Beauty can find us - often finds us - in surprising places and at inconvenient times; moments when we expect anything other than that which stills us, removes us from the circumstance to the present...then transports and even transfigures us, if we give in to its force.

This happens to me with the Gluck/Sgambati “Melodie d’Orfee,” George Michael’s “I Remember You,” Purcell’s “When I am Laid in Earth,” with Jessye Norman, Ravel’s “Le Gibet,” the Bach/Busoni Chaconne, Rachmaninov’s Andante movement to his Suite for Cello and Piano, to name a few.

Recently added to the list (and the result of some musical rabbit trailing) is this Aria, written by Kevin Puts and played by Tim Fain.

I’ve examined the composer’s works in the hopes of finding an equivalent for or with the piano but none exists (that I can find) at the time of this writing.

But that only endears this piece more to me.  For the truth is that it is less beautiful...and more that it is a representation of beauty and the Beautiful One.

And if it serves as a directional beacon to something better than itself, so much the better.

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