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The Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain — Part Four — Creative Intuition
Jacques Maritain, 1882-1973 The final step in the development of Maritain’s aesthetics is his idea of “creative intuition.” It is the culmination of Maritain’s attempt to liberate artistic intelligence and to preserve artistic freedom. The creative intuition also answers the long-standing question of how knowledge can be oriented entirely toward making and still be considered…
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The Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain — Park Three — Transcendent Subjectivity
Jacques Maritain, 1882-1973 Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry is one of Maritain’s greatest written achievements, not for any new direction in his thinking, but for his deepening insights into the question about creativity, posed nearly twenty years earlier. In “The Experience of the Poet” (1938) he asked, “Why is the percept [object] of poetic experience…
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The Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain — Part Two — The Circle of Ecstasy
Jacques Maritain, 1882-1973 The topic of poetry dominates Maritain’s aesthetic writings after Art and Scholasticism. Poetry is the basis of the human urge to create, “the intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human self” (CI 3). Maritain’s development of this idea, as well as the softening of his attitude…
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The Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain — Part One — The Source is God
Jacques Maritain, 1882-1973 Jacques Maritain was first introduced to English-speaking audiences in 1923 by the translation of Art et scolastique (1920). Since then, both Art and Scholasticism and Maritain’s other major work in aesthetics, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry (1953), have continued to attract a reading public, even though the Thomism that he advocated with Etienne Gilson, Yves R. Simon,…
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Maestro John Mauceri talks about his book, The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century @maucerij1, @houghhough, @classicalcritic, @@LSHMWAH,
The brilliant and much-needed book explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century.
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A discussion with Daniel M. Grimley about his book, Delius and the Sound of Place @deliussociety, @brownhawker, @classicalcritic, @cambridgeup,
Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862–1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected works, including ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’,…
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Composer John Bortslap discusses Wagner’s Parsifal, Der Meistersinger, and The Ring @ BostonWagner, @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK,
Some comments about John Bortslap and his music: Alfred Brendel, pianist: ‘Borstlap’s Fantasia captures splendidly the spirit of Liszt’s late music, and develops it in a personal and convincing way.’ Libor Pesek, Conductor Laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: ‘I was immediately captured by the way he creates music. John Borstlap is the rare sort of…
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Dutch Composer John Bortslap plays and explains how Christianity ungirds Western music @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK, @radical_middle, @francis_ogorman,
John Borstlap is a composer and author on cultural subjects, covering music and the visual arts. As a composer, he has been pioneering with a revival of tonal traditions since the seventies of the 20th century, comparable with a similar movement in contemporary architecture: new classicism. Although born in the Netherlands, his music is rooted…
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Guy Rickards plays and discusses the music of Franz Schmidt @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK, @fschmidtproject,
Franz Schmidt was born on 22 December 1874 in Preßburg. The Schmidt family – part of it was of Hungarian origin – moved to Vienna in 1888. This meant for the musical ‘prodigy’ that he was able to study at the former ‘Conservatory of the Society of the Friends of Music’. Franz Schmidt influenced the…
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Brendan Carroll discusses the life and work of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Brendan Carroll is the president of the International Korngold Society and the author of the definitive biography of the composer — The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 1997, Amadeus Press.