SATURDAY ♦ OCTOBER 17 ♦ 8 PM
Dramatic Presentation
Aesthetic Realism & Flaubert’s Madame Bovary by Eli Siegel
“Emma Bovary is a woman who confuses possessiveness with romance…. The art of Flaubert consists of two things: one, no mercy to the evil of the world; two, trying to make beauty out of seeing evil.”
On What Basis Will You Think Well of Yourself?
Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
We feel that the only thing we need to think well of is ourselves. But if we don’t think well of the outside world, we cannot think well of ourselves. –Eli Siegel
Modesty & Pride, Triumph & Self-Questioning in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2 by musician and teacher Alan Shapiro
“As the famous Rachmaninoff melody reaches its height, its greatest pride, on a high E♭—the mingling of major and minor, confidence and self-questioning, is at its most intense.”
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