Category: Biographies
Bearing in mind Emerson's saying that every action admits of being outdone, and around every circle another may be drawn, we none the less believe that a comparison of Sebastian Bach, Frederic Chopin and Richard Strauss, will show that, because of excellences peculiar to his d...
The Sonata should be the outpouring of a heart attuned to every chord of life; a heart capable of universal sympathies. Nevertheless, the supreme expression of that heart is joy...
2. Part 2Although German Protestantism found in Bach its musical expression, in him--the towering genius--was inevitably paramount that broad and lofty religion of pure art which, above...
5. Part 5Walled from the covetous human waves, safe from the encroaching human tide, Père la Chaise, a mass of bloom and verdure, lies asleep while the Parisian metropolis roars and surg...
3. Part 3Almost any page, almost any stanza of Shelley--most ethereal of word-poets--would indicate an unobstructed outpouring which the first drafts of even his wholly sustained inspira...
1. Part 1Bearing in mind Emerson's saying that every action admits of being outdone, and around every circle another may be drawn, we none the less believe that a comparison of Sebastian...
6. Part 6Moreover, when by means of cacophony he lays bare the true nature of evil, he should avoid an excess which would identify him with the moral pervert whose delight is in the abno...