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What happens through music once it finishes, before the applause begins?
There is a spiritual, physical, and mental space between the moment understood as the end of a music piece, and that in which no notes are left to be intonated. What is the quality of that space? When is the right time for the expected applause? Should it be expected? Join Vlad Vexler, philosopher and…
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Unnoted Music — I
There is a spiritual space, physical space, mental space between the moment understood as the end of a music piece, and the moment in which no notes are left to be intonated. This moment usually bridges the music performance with the reaction of the audience, customarily known as applause. I question the conditions and conditioning…
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rethinking self
perhaps this “self” is a mere catalyst of what I perceive, of how I perceive, of the memories within me, and all that surrounds me It is not an I — rather the compilation second by second of what transpires through me and my relaying it to others and to myself.
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This week at the Metropolitan Opera
All performances at the MET begin streaming at 7:30 pm EST Tuesday, April 6Verdi’s RigolettoStarring Christiane Eda-Pierre, Isola Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Louis Quilico, and Ara Berberian, conducted by James Levine. Production by John Dexter. From December 15, 1981. Wednesday, April 7Tchaikovsky’s Eugene OneginStarring Anna Netrebko, Elena Maximova, Alexey Dolgov, Peter Mattei, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by…
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Prolonging Transcendental States
“Transcendent states are often desperately short-lived: a few moments late at night or at dusk; on a plane or train journey across wide open country. But we can, through certain ingredients (especially lavender, cardamom, turmeric, and cinnamon), access them a little more systematically and thereby loosen the grip of our insistent egos.” In “Thinking &…
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