Philosophy
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The Mozart Effect
The notion that music has properties and powers that can sharpen the mind and transform the soul is ancient.
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The Virtue of Irrelevance
Group mentality has invaded the world of education in ways that threaten the young.
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Music offers assures us that there is something out there in the world that knows our hearts.
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Music as symbol is the whole of all things. It is the world.
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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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“A momentary illusion of having really got hold of what is the matter with modernity.”
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Classical Music’s New Golden Age
The present-day abundance of classical music is a testament to its deep roots in human feeling.
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“Tonality died somewhere around the time that Nietzsche’s God died.”
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Wagner’s story is addressed to modern people, for whom the path to heroism is overgrown.
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The Trouble with Goodness
Persons in our time find it impossible to credit the idea of intrinsic goods.
