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  • L'ENFANT PLAZA
  • What's the moral mathematics of the moment?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      "moral mathematics"? Does this phrase have a history?
  • In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      So, is this just a set up? Or is this a sign that this really is a private question made public?
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  • So, what do you think happened?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      This is where the private becomes public.
  • part inspiration and part gimmick
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      In a sense, like Weingarten's project.
  • Joshua Bell.
  • Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra,
  • Fritz Kreisler.
  • Violin Concerto in G Minor,
  • Antonio Stradivari
  • His skills are largely interpretive
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      He distinguishes between interpretation and genius. Why? What's the relationship between creativity, interpretation, and genius?
  • "The Red Violin,"
  • but only if they were of a mind to take note.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      Of a mind? Isn't this the question--how do you get people's attention? Context is all.
  • Johannes Brahms,
  • To really understand what happened, you have to rewind that video and play it back from the beginning, from the moment Bell's bow first touched the strings.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      This is key--the reversal, the upended reading.
  • No, Mr. Slatkin, there was never a crowd, not even for a second.
  • "Chaconne"
  • Plato
  • (Gottfried Leibniz),
  • (David Hume),
  • (Immanuel Kant)?
  • He is the one who is real. They are the ghosts.
  • MARK LEITHAUSER
  • Ellsworth Kelly
  • Corcoran School,
  • Critique of Aesthetic Judgment,
  • Paul Guyer
  • because he's obviously right
  • THERE ARE SIX MOMENTS IN THE VIDEO THAT BELL FINDS PARTICULARLY PAINFUL TO RELIVE
  • Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria
  • The poet Billy Collins
  • Every single time a child walked past, he or she tried to stop and watch. And every single time, a parent scooted the kid away.
  • Tillman didn't win the lottery, either.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 May 14
       
      Why say this?
  • Pieter Bruegel
  • plays Manuel Ponce's sentimental "Estrellita," then a piece by Jules Massenet, and then begins a Bach gavotte,
  • Timeless Beauty: In the Arts and Everyday Life, British author John Lane
  • W.H. Davies
  • Let's say Kant is right.
  • Philip Glass
  • "Koyaanisqatsi" is
  • "I'm surprised at the number of people who don't pay attention at all, as if I'm invisible. Because, you know what? I'm makin' a lot of noise!"
  • I didn't want to be intrusive on his space."
  • anonymous on 20 May 14
     
    When you open this essay online, it will appear without annotations. Once you click your diigolet, my annotations will appear.
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