Inner Peace

Inner Peace

From Blind Skeleton's Three Tune Tuesday by Boneapart and Yulia

March 31, 2026 · 55 min · Episode 107

About this episode

This episode explores the theme of inner peace through three musical recordings, each representing different aspects of finding peace.

This week on Three Tune Tuesday, the theme is Inner Peace — inspired by a vision over the weekend. We open with a Today in History pick: on this very date in 1907, Prince’s Military Band recorded The Dream of the Rarebit Fiend for Columbia Records, a chaotic, lurching musical portrait of the nightmare state that reminds us what peace is not. From there we move to something quieter — the Revillon Trio’s 1915 instrumental recording of Somewhere a Voice Is Calling, a melody written by Arthur F. Tate on holiday in Whitby, England, in which the voice of the title goes unheard and the listener is left simply waiting, still, in the dusk. We close with one of the most hard-won declarations of peace in the entire hymn tradition: It Is Well With My Soul, recorded in 1906 by William F. Hooley and the Handel Mixed Quartet, the text written by Horatio Spafford as his ship crossed the spot in the Atlantic where his four daughters had drowned. Three recordings, three different ways of arriving at the same place — because inner peace, it turns out, is never simply given. It has to be found. Lyrics Somewhere a Voice is Calling Dusk and the shadows falling O’er land and sea; Somewhere a voice is…

People in this episode

Hosts: Boneapart, Yulia

Topics covered

  • inner peace
  • music history
  • hymns
  • emotional expression
  • historical recordings

Keywords

  • inner peace
  • music
  • hymns
  • recordings
  • historical music

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, Somewhere a Voice Is Calling, It Is Well With My Soul

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