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Early Music and the Conservation of Culture

By Michael De Sapio|2024-08-06T17:21:20-05:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Felix Mendelssohn, History, J.S. Bach, Michael De Sapio, Music, Romanticism, Senior Contributors, Western Tradition|

While everyday life feels rootless, cultural and artistic accomplishment stands as a steady anchor and source of pride and joy and discovery. Music, the most popular and beloved of the arts, connects us to something higher than us, perhaps a way of life and set of feelings that flourished before we were born. Music can [...]

The Romantic Reaction

C.S. Lewis thought that "Romanticism" had acquired so many different meanings that, as a word, it had become meaningless "and should be banished from our vocabulary.” But is Lewis right? In the “Afterword” to the third edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress C.S. Lewis complained that “Romanticism” had acquired so many different meanings that, as a [...]