Title: Why Paradise in music and picture?

The organization «Women for peace» asked Ruth Juon to write a song against the suppression of the Indians. «I agreed immediately. During the lyric work I had difficulties because I am anyway against any kind of suppression, against the suppression of women, men, children, animals, environment and so far. If I wanted to be fair, I would have had to write a song for all of them, which is impossible. What should I do? I had the idea that I should go for it the other way round, not to say «what against», but rather «what for». Then all of a sudden it got very simple. Of course I am for Paradise on earth! «Vision of Paradise» was born. Evi Juon, my sister, joined me: what could be more fascinating for a painter than to create paradisiac pictures?

Since then we dedicated all our efforts to the subject of Paradise. We began to observe moments of luck in life, and with intuition, thinking, and fantasy, searched for the paradisical ideal which was found in the song «Vision of Paradise»: Love is Paradise!

As a result of it we now have the Song Cycle «Vision of Paradise» for Soprano, Orchestra and Aquarelles. Followed by the Small Picture- and Speech Opera «Rabeschwarz und Pinkvioletta» for Narrator, Orchestra and Aquarelles. The musical fairytale tells how Pinkvioletta, the young witch of the woods, realizes her big flower magic dream and finds the Win-Win solution with her hardest opponents, the slugs. Next came the «Mind Suite – The Paradise Formula». The «Mind Suite» expresses in each of its eight movements a Paradise-Thesis. Together they form a system, a Formula to Paradise.

Pict: Vision of Paradise
Link: Song and picture «Vision of Paradise»
© Vision of Paradise, Music + Art Ruth Juon and Evi Juon, Switzerland