Saturday, January 17, 8:00 PM
Aesthetic Realism Dramatic Presentation
The Wildness & Order We’re Looking For; or, George W. Bagby on “Rubinstein’s Playing” & “Good Eatings”
In this funny, deep, & dramatic talk, Eli Siegel says:
“These sketches by Bagby represent the desire, which is in everyone, for full release. In all art the desire to have the self more expansive, to do more than it had, is present. In life, the trying to be expansive is usually done in a bad way, and there is a good deal of suffering. We are looking for the utmost energy and the utmost precision.”
How Would You Describe Yourself? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“Do you think the fight between secrecy and showing yourself could make for timidity?” —Eli Siegel
The Opposites in Music: Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
By flutist Barbara Allen
“We are affected by these sounds because we want to put opposites together ourselves—we want to feel joy has a form that is strict and permanent.”
And More!
Contri. $10
Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
Featured image: Anton Rubinstein, silhouette by Mrs. Behr, 1886