Change, especially the kind that moves a civilization forward, requires easy access to knowledge and information. The Founding Fathers understood this. As exponents of the Enlightenment, they saw the availability of knowledge and information as a critical element of a thriving and prospering nation. [...]
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It’s commonly known that in the pre-print age people relied on their memories to store information, but it is not commonly realized just what this entails. When we think of memorizing something, we think in terms of learning something by rote, so that we could recite it if called upon to do so. The medieval memory went far beyond that. The art of memory was not merely about holding information, but about processing [...] One of the few things everyone–and I do mean everyone–should do before they die is go to a stage production of a major opera by a world-class opera company. The San Francisco opera certainly qualifies for the latter, and Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre definitely fits the former. Last Saturday my wife and I had the [...] The Redwood Symphony and Conductor/Director Eric Kujawsky are to be congratulated for taking on such a challenging and remarkable work and delivering a polished, moving [...] No, the latest offering by Bay Choral Guild was not program of favorites from Woodstock. The title of last Friday’s concert, “Peace and Love” alludes to the works that made up the program. The concert we attended was the first of three over this last weekend in Campbell, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. The “Peace” part [...] Last Saturday my spouse and I had the pleasure of listening to another excellent concert by the Bay Choral Guild at the Campbell United Methodist Church. The name of the program was “A World of Song”, a title which does not really do proper justice to the program. One of the great lessons of anthropology, art [...] This past weekend, my spouse and I recently had the pleasure of hearing the Bay Choral Guild in a concert of music by French composers. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to the Bay Choral Guild, you’re missing a real treat. This 45-voice auditioned choir consistently delivers beautiful renditions of a wide range [...] Waterfire brazier. Photo by the author. Despite my passing through middle age, I am still naïve enough or wise enough to argue that it is the duty of any creative intellectual to improve the place where he or she lives and works. The artist in particular has remarkable power in this area–if they can [...] When I was in grade school, I had the good fortune to benefit from the fact that the Russians, via Sputnik, had scared the bejesus out of America, prompting our leaders to the very sensible conclusion that we needed more smart people. That meant that for a brief, shining moment, schools received lavish funding [...] |
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