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2021-02-20 06:06:00
Classical Music News of the Week, February 20, 2021
[…] beginning July 4, with a series of free streamed video performances by Kwon followed by Q&A sessions with the composers, culminating in two evenings of live performances by Kwon in the Catacombs of The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY on July 8 and 9.For more information, visit https://www.america-beautiful.com/--Andrew Ousley, Unison MediaMusic, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of MusicColumbia University Press announces Music, Math and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music by David Sulzer.Written for musicians & music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency, including none, this book demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder. David Sulzer is Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (and composer Dave Soldier by night). Publication date: April 27, 2021.David Sulzer's debut book, Music, Math, and Mind, offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and […]
2021-02-06 20:21:00
Haydn's Creation: Chaos and Light
[…] composer’s library. This popular philosophy, derived to some extent from Leibniz’s rationalistic deism, has at its heart the necessity of God’s existence and rejection of Spinoza’s – and Lessing’s alleged – pantheism. An absolute, eternal mind is quite certain, since the testimony of the senses to an external world would be unthinkable without a necessary, extra-worldly being. Portrait by Bernhard Rode, c.1770 A generation earlier, the Swiss æsthetician, Johann Georg Sulzer, had written of the sublime (Erhaben), in his influential Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste: We are moved as little by the wholly inconceivable as if it never existed. If we are told that God created the world ex nihilo … we experience nothing at all, since this lies totally beyond our comprehension. But when Moses says, ‘And God said: Let there be light; and there was light,’ we are overcome with astonishment because […]
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2016-08-03 10:52:37
Opera of the Year (1): Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logicus
For those who like intellectual substance on stage, Balduin Sulzer has made a one-woman opera of the one-man mind-mountain. Read here.
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