Categoria: art

  • Exploring Contemporary Harp Music: Fifteen Minutes of Fame

    Exploring Contemporary Harp Music: Fifteen Minutes of Fame

    I watched harpist Danielle Kuntz perform a special Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame recital presented by Robert Voisey from Vox Novus, and I was deeply enchanted. In fifteen brief works by composers from around the world, the harp seemed to move through many inner landscapes: initiation, childhood, mystery, withdrawal, lightning, destiny, forest, water, dawn,…

  • Aesthetics, Beauty, and Spirit

    Aesthetics, Beauty, and Spirit

    Aesthetics as soul-care (and why it’s not consumerism)Aesthetics, in the philosophical sense, isn’t ornament; it’s the study of perception. Since Baumgarten and Kant, it asks: how do we sense, what moves us, why does beauty matter? Beauty isn’t mere taste; it’s an experience that re-orders our inner world. A museum…