Composition
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Conservatism and the Conservatory
The observation is often made that political conservatives do not have anything much to say about the arts, but that is not the whole truth.
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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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Counterpoint and Why It Matters
Counterpoint in music is like rhyme in poetry: it holds disparate things together in a unity, and at the same time it shows that unity is not simple but composed.
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Deep Listening
All the concrete, busy activity leading up to the performance is not the music, but only its production apparatus.
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Music in the Modern Age
The hero of Robert Reilly’s generous and beautifully written book is beauty.
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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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Music and the Quest to Rediscover the Sacred
The search for spirituality seems ubiquitous these days, but is it transcendent of anything?
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Recovering the Sacred in Music
Can the recovery of music be, at least partially, a product of faith?
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The Music of the Future
One can be modern without being avant-garde, without lapsing into sound effects.