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SWEET DREAMS & FLYING MACHINES
Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus You’ve got to help me make a stand You’ve just got to see me through another day My body’s aching and my time is at hand And I won’t make it any other … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Roller, Bright Lights Film Journal, Cosima Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, German Opera, Gustav Mahler, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Hans Richter, James Taylor, James taylor Fire and Rain, Marx Brothers, Mozart, Richard and Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Terry Teachout, The Marx Brothers, Wagner Brunnhilde, Wagner Gotterdammerung, Wagner Rheingold, Wagner Siegfried, Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Werner Fassbinder
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FINE LINE BETWEEN THE HEROIC & THE IDIOTIC
No other artist has made such ferocious demands upon his performers and the public. Richard Wagner, an autocrat, not only wrote the libretto and the music; often with total disregard for the human voice; but also flung into the score … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolphe Appia, Apocalypse Now, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Beethoven, Bruchner, Cosima and richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, David Michael Lindsey, Edmund Blair Leighton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Mahler, Hans Pfitzner, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John F. Runciman, Katherine W. Rinne, Maestro Levine Metropolitan, Metropolitan Opera, Mozart, Placido Domingo, Richard Wagner, Schoenberg, Stanley Kubrick, Wagenr Brunnhilde, Wagner and Hitler, Wagner Bochlin, Wagner hall of Fame Bayreuth, Wagner Lohengrin, Wagner Parcifal, Wagner Rheingold, Wagner Siegfried, Wagner Tristan, Wagner Tristan and Isolde
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REQUIEM FOR A GENIUS
”Form is essential to art in that it mediates content. Form is the artifacts coherence, however self antagonistic and refracted, through which every successful work separates itself from the merely existing. …what can rightly be called form in artworks fulfills … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Schuring, Constanze Weber, Eduard Ender, Edward Gibbon, Gibbon, Goethe, Heribert Rau, Leonard Cohen, Martin van Meytens, Mozart, Nietzsche, Sacheverell Sitwell, Saveria Dalla Rosa, Schiedermair, Theodor Adorno, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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BEING DOES NOT = E + MC 2
Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abu-Bakarr Mansaray, African Art, Bill Poser, Cheri Cherin, Darwin, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Bloch, Ernst Simon Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Globe and mail, Haiti, Hannah Arendt, Jane Alexander, Jean Paul Sartre, Leonard Cohen, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Malam, Mapplethorpe, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Mozart, Newton, Noam Chomsky, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Robert Mapplethorpe, Russell Smith, Sartre, Steven Pinker, Wangechi Mutu
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THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE PHOENIX
The twenty somethings. The Generation Y of his time. The Harry Potter infected mania of the Hapsburgs and the first faint scent of a nostalgic return. Wolfgang Amadeus “Quidditch of Music” Mozart. His patience finally snapped when he was made … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaumarchais, Beaumarche, Carlos Saura, Constance Weber, Figaro, Franz Nemecek, Harry Potter, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart, Otto Rank, Quidditch, Robert Louis Stevenson, The marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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YOUNG MOZART AND FATHER KNOWS BEST
The ecstatic principle of life itself . At least this is how Soren Kierkegaard saw Mozart. ” I am in love with Mozart like a young girl, Kierkegaard confessed in ”Either/Or”. ”Immortal Mozart I owe you everything; it is thanks … Continue reading
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Tagged Amadeus, E.T.A. Hoffman, Haydn, Leopold Mozart, Michael jackson, Mozart, Paul Zoffany, Peter Shaffer, Schachtner, Schlichtegroll, Soren Kierkegaard, Topazbean, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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