On November 23, I attended Soul Leaves Her Body, an integrated-media performance combining theater, dance, live video, music, and film. Inspired by a 13th century Chinese story about a woman who rips her soul from her body in order to pursue her destiny in the city, the show explored the soul-body relationship in life, love, […]
Entries from November 24th, 2010
Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman’s New York
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts
As we all know, Seminar 1 explores the Arts in New York City, hence its namesake. However, how often to do we encounter an arts event in Manhattan featuring art on, well, Manhattan? That’s were Herbert Katzman comes in. A Chicago native, Katzman moved to New York City and fell in love with it, even […]
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Music and Spirituality
November 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts
There is no doubt that music plays an important role in facilitating people spiritually for all kinds of religion. One of the earliest and most known examples is the Gregorian chant of the Middle ages. However, sacred music of not only Roman Catholicism, but in other denominations as well are often overlooked artistically. Thus, Lincoln […]
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Arts Seminar Post 1
November 4th, 2010 · No Comments · School
There’s a famous saying about messing up, which is “An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ” by Orlando Battista. So, I’m correcting mine. During Music and the Brain, Victor Wooten spoke about how a bassist he admired appeared to him in his dream and taught him how to play […]
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