Philosophy
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Beauty and Desecration
Willful desecration is also a denial of love – an attempt to remake the world as though love were no longer a part of it. And that, surely, is the most important characteristic of the postmodern culture: it is a loveless culture, determined to portray the human world as unlovable. The modern stage director who…
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The Music of Love
Revolution has been the slogan and banner for generations of creative idealists. But they seem more concerned with a love of transgression than of life.
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The Roots of Modernity
Modernity consists of perversions of notions drawn from Christianity; to be a modern means to be deeply enmeshed in them.
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Earth’s Holocaust
“Now we shall get rid of the weight of dead men’s thought, which has hitherto pressed so heavily on the living intellect.”
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The Hope of Beauty
The sort of art that lives eternally is that which captures astonishing, spine-chilling, breathtaking, transforming beauty.
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The Enduring Presence of the Past
Engagement with the riches of a culture is a learning process which develops our capacity to make value judgments.
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The search for spirituality seems ubiquitous these days, but is it transcendent of anything?
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Breath in a Ram’s Horn
Music exists to provide us with sacred moments, inklings of the Other in a profane world.
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Do we really want to hear Beethoven’s Fifth as it was heard at its premiere?
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To Orchestrate a Renaissance
Paradoxically, while our civilization grows old, it is our past that we label as aged and the day itself as eternally young.
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Recovering the Sacred in Music
Can the recovery of music be, at least partially, a product of faith?