Secrets of Life

If we wish to be let in on the secrets of life, we must be mindful of two things: first, there is the great melody to which things and scents, feelings and past lives, dawns and dreams contribute in equal measure, and then there are the individual voices that complete and perfect this full chorus.   ~ Rainer Maria Rilke



  Composers, artists, poets and lovers endure because of the dreams they inspire and the great melodies they provide. One such composer, is the the late great Marvin Hamlisch who wrote the musical score  to the movie The Way We Were.  In the  TV show Sex and the City  the cast of girlfriends  talk about the movie. 
 The song itself is a great romantic song about wanting to be with the one you love, but circumstances prevent it. 

Marvin Hamlisch on Shalom TV

    How is it possible that everyone remembers this title song? Is it not because as Rilke says there is a great melody in life (secret number one)? And then is not each great love a unique and special voice ( secret number two) that completes us?

   Rilke also said that love is a radiant force:

 "To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away. To love is to endure.‎"

Click on the excerpt from the TV show (below) that mentions The Way We Were. To hear Barbara Streisand sing the song at the end of the video (4:51) underscores the timelessness of music, love and memory.

Sex and the City Discuss The Way We Were