The Spirit of This Place
How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit
- Contents
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Geist
The Rothko Chapel
Wondering and Thinking Music
Privacy
The Touchy Spirit
What Is Music?
Music’s Basic Elements
The Thin Line
Not Making a Profit
Unexpected Houston
Practice
Music and Spirituality
The Ineffable
The Expertrap
Why?
Our Stuff
Iniquities of Inequity
Dead White Guys
Righting the Unwritable
The Journey
The World of the Imagination
Is One Person’s Noise Worth More than Another’s Silence?
The Biz
Indefinable Malaise
The Grand One
The Artist Apollo and Company
The Gravity of the Decline of Arts Education
The Elusive Art
From Heavenly Harmony
Conducting a Life
Our Contribution to the Human Spirit
It Goes On
Hoffnung
Beliefs
New Harmony
Index
"Summers delivers a series of brief vignettes expressing his belief in the necessity of art, especially music, as it relates to the spiritual and to the understanding of humanity. In each chapter he creates a philosophical conversation about the importance of art and the contributions music can make to everyday life. . . . This poetic work illuminates the challenges of these politically tumultuous times dominated by technology, and reminds the reader that music has the power to expand and reinforce one's intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual journeys."
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