Saturday, October 21, 8:00 pm
Aesthetic Realism Dramatic Presentation
On Music, Evil, & Love!
THE TRIAL OF MR. PICKWICK: A consideration of Chapter 33 of Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers, by Eli Siegel
“This chapter is a high point in the relation of mirth and evil. Serjeant Buzfuz is a person as much representing evil as anybody in fiction, though he's also exceedingly funny. Samuel Weller represents good sense—he is an angel in London with an accent.”
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 flat—the mingling of major and minor, confidence and self-questioning, is at its most intense.”
ABOUT LOVE AND MARRIAGE—from Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims by Eli Siegel
DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
Eli Siegel. A person should be interested in pleasure, but a person should also be interested in the effect she or he has on another person….Is it possible to have ecstasy and self-respect?
—AND MORE!
Contri. $10
