Nature’s Symphonic Beauty: Towards a New Paradigm By Sara Michieletto Art has the power to drive human progress by helping us think beyond our limitations and obstacles. Its power is needed more than ever, as our world is faced with unprecedented global health and environmental crisis. The art world can, Read more
Emotion for Change: An Interview with Sara Michieletto Sara Michieletto is an Italian violinist who has performed worldwide, including with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Orchestra. She has collaborated with highly acclaimed conductors such as Muti, Maazel, Masur, Pretre, Gardiner, and Chung. Since 1998 she has played the Read more
// \\ By Cleo Mikutta “It is hard to write a beautiful song. It is harder to write several individually beautiful songs that, when sung simultaneously, sound as a more beautiful polyphonic whole. The internal structures that create each of the voices separately must contribute to the emergent structure of Read more
Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said’s ‘And Also’ by Alissa Jones Nelson Binaries are bogus constructions. We live in a world of continuum, of three-dimensional spiral. Linear progress is a myth we’ve told ourselves almost to death. It’s hardly original to suggest that contemporary approaches to the complexities of globalization–multiculturalism, populism, cosmopolitan Read more