Composition
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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.
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We are living at the time of a major musical renaissance.
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Tonality is constantly renewing itself in defiance of an academic orthodoxy that denies its right to exist.
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Schoenberg’s error was to ignore the inherently hierarchical nature of pitched sound itself.
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If, after Kant, there was no way to know “the thing-in-itself,” after Wagner, there was no way to know “the-key-in-itself.”
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The Blind Spots of Pierre Boulez
His way of looking at the world was discredited by the nightmare of the 20th century’s totalitarian conceptions.
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The Clothes Have No Emperor
We must surely understand Boulez as the instigator of a false conception of the nature of music itself.
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Classical Modernity
Our distorted view has much to do with the idea that culture develops like a timeline.
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The Myth of Progress in the Arts
On being imprisoned between, on one hand, the past, and on the other, modernism.
