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What Can We Learn from Music about Ourselves?

This lively, timely, and illuminating public seminar will be presented by Barbara Allen, Edward Green, & speakers from the Opposites in Music class

They’ll speak on and play:

“George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue—Profound & Playful”
By Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman

Wildness & Precision in Little Richard’s “Good Golly, Miss Molly”
Bu Kevin Fennell

Wagner’s Liebestod; or, Striving, Achievement, & Love
By Alan Shapiro

Roughness & Grace in “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”
Performed by Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
By Bennett Cooperman

All based on the landmark principle stated by poet and critic Eli Siegel: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”











When: Thu., Jan. 3, 2019 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St.
212-777-4490
Price: $10 Suggested Contribution
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This lively, timely, and illuminating public seminar will be presented by Barbara Allen, Edward Green, & speakers from the Opposites in Music class

They’ll speak on and play:

“George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue—Profound & Playful”
By Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman

Wildness & Precision in Little Richard’s “Good Golly, Miss Molly”
Bu Kevin Fennell

Wagner’s Liebestod; or, Striving, Achievement, & Love
By Alan Shapiro

Roughness & Grace in “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”
Performed by Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
By Bennett Cooperman

All based on the landmark principle stated by poet and critic Eli Siegel: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

Buy tickets/get more info now