Vivaldi & Others: Luciano Berio—The Historically Conscious Avant-Gardist
Berio believed that sounds are inextricably linked to a certain historical-traditional, even archetypal, meaning.
Berio believed that sounds are inextricably linked to a certain historical-traditional, even archetypal, meaning.
When secession serves the needs of political homogeneity and self-determination, it might actually serve the common good.
Those who engage in self-immolation today are raging against a world grown immune to the human quest for meaning and self-sacrifice.
The data-driven economy of Big Tech is a demon UFO cloud that does not rain but abducts.
Sunday’s long read: Charles Coulombe on America, Europe, history, and monarchism.
In West Yorkshire, the Brontë family’s literary legacy endures in places that evoke the triumph and the tragedy of their lives.
Dallapiccola composed Il prigioniero, set against the backdrop of the Dutch Revolt, to protest Mussolini’s regime.
Marco Polo’s memoir portrays an encounter between radically different civilizations that can be a model for us today.
We do not need art critics and experts to educate us. Beauty speaks for itself.
“What kind of god?” asked Tucker Carlson as Joe Rogan described the possible replacement of humans by AI.
With Anderson’s passing, a great American war hero and triple ace pilot has left us.
Catholics can undermine the self-exile of technology if we understand our own counterculture in terms of reestablishing true environments.
The 7th edition of the Bal des Parisiennes will be held on Saturday, June 8th at the Pavillon Dauphine, in Paris.
It is high time for the music of Roffredo Caetani to be rediscovered.
Americans may cross the water as much as they like, but it is an ocean of time as well as space that separates us from our origins.
The Midwit Meme claims that the uneducated and the very educated are natural allies. The real problem is found with those towards the centre of the spectrum, the slightly educated lot.
The acknowledgement of difference—and yet tolerance and a willingness to work together—was an essential part of my visit to Israel.
No matter how bad a workday I may have had, those precious seconds when I turn the key in the front door and hear the jubilant shouts of “Daddy!” make it all worthwhile.
The great Tuscan poet can save our lives.
Tyranny pretends to respond to higher, more advanced, imperatives, but they are, at root, an expression of an age-old libido dominandi.
The protagonist of Creangă’s story confronts armies of demons with humor and common sense, exposing the ridiculous mediocrity of evil.
Western decadence is today revealed by an out-of-touch elite class, more interested in microaggressions than in civilizational decline.
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