William J. Kirkpatrick News
English composer of hymns and teacher (1838-1921)
- violin, organ, flute, cello
- church music
- United States of America
- cellist, violinist, hymnwriter, composer
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2024-02-18 12:27:00
Wake up and listen to the music
Elsewhere much brouhaha about the launch of a BBC Radio 3 extension. This new online channel will offer "peaceful favourites.....ethereal choral music, soothing orchestral textures [and] mood-based repertoire [including] shows that lean into the mindfulness, wellbeing and sleep space... to create a consistent, calming listening experience". Personally this development does not worry me very much, as I have given up listening to Radio 3 completely since it became a deformed clone of Classic FM. But the hijacking of wisdom practices such as mindfulness to justify a desperate lunge for the Classic FM market does concern me. Mindfulness has been taken out of context and exploited by many other misguided corporations before the BBC saw it as silver bullet for the moribund Radio 3. Similarly yoga and other components of Eastern wisdom traditions have been ruthlessly exploited for commercial gain. In fact mindfulness is a key component of Vipassana meditation in the Buddhist Theravada ('Way […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-04 20:28:00
25 Years Ago A Luddite And A Techno-Utopian Bet On Whether Technology Would Destroy The World…
“History is full of civilizations that have collapsed, followed by people who have had other ways of living,” Kirkpatrick Sale said. “My optimism is based on the certainty that civilization will collapse.” – Wired
2019-03-11 09:56:00
Classical music has many Buddhist tendencies
With 376 million followers Buddhism is the fourth largest belief system in the world. Its core teachings of compassion and non-violence are well-known; but the wider cultural impact of those in the creative community exhibiting what the composer Jonathan Harvey described as "Buddhist tendencies" is underappreciated. Sri Lanka's state religion is Theravada - doctrine of the elders - Buddhism, and it may not be a coincidence that in 1960 elected Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman prime minister. The island has been a center of Buddhist scholarship and practice since the introduction of Buddhism in the third century, and the country played a leading role in the preservation of the Pāli Canon of Buddhist teachings. I took the accompanying photos on a recent pilgrimage to Buddhist shrines in Sri Lanka, and to illustrate the influence of Buddhism on classical music I have juxtaposed them with cameos of music with […]
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