aesthetics
I Cried for Madder Music...
The title is a quote from a poem by Ernest Dowson--the next phrase is "and stronger wine"…
The title is a quote from a poem by Ernest Dowson--the next phrase is "and stronger wine"…
This is a topic that has never hugely interested me, but Ted Gioia and others have written a lot a…
The prolific Ted Gioia has just done us a very big favor in digging into the issue of fake artists…
Time was when composers, John Cage for example, luxuriated in their unpopularity, thinking that if …
I want to preface this discussion by saying it is kind of an addendum to a post from five years ago…
Now that Corona is a bitter truth of life and we understand, it is here to stay for a while, how ca…
How to keep your home cool this summer is a question that pops in everyone's mind these days. T…
I am so concerned with the problem of aesthetics because, in the last century, the overwhelming aes…
Can aesthetics ever truly be obsolete? According to present day scholarship you would certainly thi…
Apart from a certain ingenuity with rhythm, I suspect my principal gift as a musician is the unerri…
One of the core projects of this blog has been to advocate for the quality and worth of classical m…
In the wake of the lock down, we have limited means of access to various elements even flowers whic…
One of the chapters in Taruskin's recent collection Cursed Questions , is titled "Essence …
Reading a new collection of essays by Richard Taruskin, in this case Cursed Questions , is always a…
This post is inspired by some of the comments on the last post "There is No Hope for Art?"…
I'm reading Richard Taruskin's newest collection of essays, just published a few days ago. …
Older folks get a reputation for being cranky and disagreeable. I think this is because when you ha…
One perennial essay topic is the General Debunking, or finding a sacred cow to gore. Here is a fine…
The Institute of Art and Ideas has a very interesting piece on the stubborn challenge of consciousn…