Professor C. Jack Orr's Web Site

Under Construction: When this page is complete it will provide musical metaphors for spirit.

For instance:

"The world wants describing, the world wants to be observed and hymned and there’s a kind of hymning undercurrent that I feel in my work. With writing, or generally with art, we show the world our admiration and express our thanks that we are here. …it’s my intention to describe the world as the Psalmists did.”

John Updike

"Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifing experience."

George Eliot

"We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."

Virginia Woolf

"Einstein was a man who could ask simple questions. And what his worked showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking."

Jacob Bronowski

"I am a little church (far from the frantic world with its rapture and anguish) at peace with nature-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest; i am not sorry when silence becomes singing."

e. e. cummings

"This is what I have to say about Bach's life work: listen, play, love, revere--and keep your mouth shut...As to Schubrt, I have only this to say: play the music, love --and shut your mouth."

Albert Einstein