Acceptance from Acceptance by Billy Childs
As I get older and live more life, the adage about accepting the things you cannot change becomes truer. Relationships change or end all-together, and friends pass away or become ill. These challenges are often rather emotionally wrenching and grief-inducing. Yet, the final stage in the five stages of grief is acceptance, which is the place you must end up at if you want to mentally survive. Also, I want to make the distinction between acceptance and resignation. Resignation implies that you have resigned yourself to a painful reality. Acceptance, to me, means that you have not let reality have power over you – that you have faced it head-on and have chosen to move past it. That is what this song is about. That is why the main melody, which is first stated in C minor by the piano, is reprised in C major by the soprano saxophone at the end of Steve’s solo – to symbolize the healing aspect of acceptance.
Tracklist
| 2. | Acceptance | 7:11 |
Credits
Billy Childs • Lunacy Music [BMI]
soprano sax – Steve Wilson
piano – Billy Childs
acoustic bass – Hans Glawischnig
drums – Eric Harland
License
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Pianist Billy Childs is one of the foremost American composers of his era and has successfully married the musical products of his heritage with the Western neoclassical traditions of the twentieth century in a powerful symbiosis of style, range, and dynamism. Thus far in his career, Childs has garnered several honors including seventeen GRAMMY® Award nominations, and won six of them.