MARCH 20

Spring, Life, Music

  More Life! by Ellen Reiss

“Who is more alive: 1) a person who can look at an object, maybe the bare branch of a winter tree, and be interested in it, feel that in its humble bareness yet proud diagonal lift it is beautiful?; or 2) a person who looks at the branch yet doesn’t really notice it, and moves on?”—The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, issue 1291

 

  How Is Reality Organized? by Eli Siegel

	“Spring is a sign that nature hasn’t lost its gift for organization....As energy goes from the earth through the stem of a plant and changes into a flower, and the flower blooms, it is an example of the successful organization that nature has.”

 

  Are You Glad to Need Him? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson

"Does your husband get the feeling you have these signs: ”Help me unlimitedly” but “No Trespassing”? — Eli Siegel

 

  Seriousness & Jubilation in Bach's B Minor Mass by musician and choral director Alan Shapiro

"One of the most beautiful and deeply ecstatic moments in the choral music of the world comes when the ‘Crucifixus,’somber and mournful, is followed by the joyous ‘Et Resurexit.’"

 

—And More!

APRIL 17

Drama, Landscape, Love

  Aesthetic Realism & the Drama by Eli Siegel—including scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and John Banks’ 1728 play The Earl of Essex: A Tragedy

“In the drama, there has to be some feeling of fight, however faint; but the fight is never of strangers. There is always, when drama is most dramatic, a fight of people who are for each other.”

  Love Needs Knowledge Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson

"Let’s say a person’s desire to know another was 65 percent and the desire to have that person was 85 percent—do you think there could be trouble?"
—Eli Siegel

  Central Park—Its Beauty & Ethical History by architect Dale Laurin

“I see Central Park, in its unity and variety, as an important work of art.The way its various elements—the rustic pond; the promenade under towering elms; the sunny, expansive Great Lawn—add to each other, shows how we want to be and how we need to see people different from ourselves: with the respect and kindness they deserve.”

 

—And More!

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