{"id":7752,"date":"2018-06-17T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2018-06-17T01:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T01:29:13","slug":"to-venus-and-mars-flores-strand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2018\/06\/to-venus-and-mars-flores-strand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To Venus and Mars&#8221; by Rodney Rawlings &#8211; Sandra Flores-Strand, Mezzosoprano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalbusinessjournal.rationalargumentator.com\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><big><big><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rodney Rawlings and Sandra Flores-Strand<\/span><br \/>\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PdMKVO2uxU4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Description by Rodney Rawlings: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PdMKVO2uxU4\">Performed by mezzosoprano Sandra Flores-Strand<\/a> with pianist John Massaro in rehearsal for Voices of Vienna concert of April 13, 2018, in Fountain Hills, Arizona. A video of the concert is expected to become available soon. This song is in tribute, and counsel, to those adventurers who push out the boundaries of our one and irreplaceable existence.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Watch an earlier performance of &#8220;To Venus and Mars&#8221; by soprano Amanda Noelle Neal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f9DmUv67jpA\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TO VENUS AND MARS&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While children down here in the fields<br \/>\nCatch fireflies in jars,<br \/>\nSo grown men chase evening light &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; To Venus and Mars<br \/>\nSomeday a brave man will go&#8211;<br \/>\nSomeone who can bear to be launched<br \/>\nAnd leave us below.<\/p>\n<p>But deep in the sky<br \/>\nHe will lose sight of the earth<br \/>\nEre catching that one final glimpse&#8211;<br \/>\nStuff of memoirs&#8211;<br \/>\nKnowing he&#8217;s bound on a course<br \/>\nTo Venus and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Now he must seek higher realms instead.<br \/>\nIt was time for those last looks to end.<br \/>\nEchoes remind him of what they said<br \/>\nWhen he first heard their call to ascend:<br \/>\n&#8220;Do you find most of this globe absurd,<br \/>\n&#8220;With its throngs, restless passions, and tears?<br \/>\n&#8220;This world is vain, as we&#8217;ve often heard.<br \/>\n&#8220;Do you long for a mission that&#8217;s one-way<br \/>\n&#8220;To Venus and Mars&#8211; to Venus and Mars&#8211;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Near Venus and Mars<br \/>\nYet might he grow ill at ease<br \/>\nTo gaze on them&#8211;visions of Earth<br \/>\nTaint all that he sees?<\/p>\n<p>This trav&#8217;ler may soon<br \/>\nDream he will one day return&#8211;<br \/>\nTo mingle on streets full of life,<br \/>\nTo chase falling stars<br \/>\nAnd quite serenely look up to Venus and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>(Spoken:) And quite serenely look up<br \/>\n(Sung:) to Venus and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2018 Rodney Rawlings<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodney Rawlings is a Toronto writer and composer\/songwriter. He\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prleap.com\/pr\/102679\/\">arrived at the concept of hypercomplex numbers independently<\/a>, using Ayn Rand\u2019s philosophy of Objectivism to guide him. \u00a0See his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4UklzPdmzVm0tDc7coz5tw\">YouTube Channel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney Rawlings and Sandra Flores-Strand ****************************** Description by Rodney Rawlings: Performed by mezzosoprano Sandra Flores-Strand with pianist John Massaro in rehearsal for Voices of Vienna concert of April 13, 2018, in Fountain Hills, Arizona. A video of the concert is expected to become available soon. This song is in tribute, and counsel, to those adventurers who push out the boundaries of our one and irreplaceable existence. Watch an earlier performance of &#8220;To Venus and Mars&#8221; by soprano Amanda Noelle Neal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2018\/06\/to-venus-and-mars-flores-strand\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5354],"tags":[5495,4363,5493,583,5492,5215,5491,5218,564,5220,5494],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry","tag-adventurer","tag-astronaut","tag-john-massaro","tag-mars","tag-mezzosoprano","tag-rodney-rawlings","tag-sandra-flores-strand","tag-song","tag-space","tag-venus","tag-voices-of-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7756,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}