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Performing Arts on The Culturium

Jul 21 2019

Stephen Nachmanovitch: The Art of Is

Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation - The Culturium
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation, Deluge.
Photograph: [Public Domain] WikiArt

Improvising as a way of life

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Performing Arts · Tagged: american, improvisation, music, nonfiction, prose, stephen nachmanovitch, the art of is, wassily kandinsky

Oct 29 2017

John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur

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Margaretta Mitchell, John Adams.
Photograph: © Margaretta Mitchell, Earbox

Musical minimalism

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Performing Arts · Tagged: american, ansel adams, holy minimalism, jack kerouac, john adams, john cage, music, the dharma at big sur

May 21 2017

John Tavener: Towards Silence

George Newson, John Tavener With Cat, April 1992 British Composer - The Culturium
George Newson, John Tavener With Cat.
Photograph: © George Newson/Lebrecht Music & Arts

The soundlessness of sound

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Performing Arts · Tagged: advaita vedanta, british, christian mysticism, george newson, john tavener, music, rene guenon, towards silence

Mar 12 2017

Arvo Pärt: Silentium

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Death on a Pale Horse - The Culturium
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Death on a Pale Horse.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The sound of the sublime

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Performing Arts · Tagged: a mountain scene val d'aosta, arvo pärt, death on a pale horse, estonian, holy minimalism, joseph mallord william turner, music, silentium, tabula rasa

Jul 08 2016

Upahar: Bright Like a Million Suns

Upahar, ‘Bright Like a Million Suns' - The Culturium
Paula Marvelly, Bright Like a Million Suns.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

A musical rendition of the poetry of Saint Kabir

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature, Performing Arts · Tagged: arunachala, bright like a million suns, english, indian, inside the taj mahal, music, paul horn, tiruvannamalai, upahar, video

Mar 04 2016

Philip Jacobs: Dance of the Dervishes

Paula Marvelly, ’Whirling Dervishes’ - The Culturium
Paula Marvelly, Whirling Dervishes at The Study Society.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

How Rumi’s spontaneous turning led to a centuries-old tradition

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Performing Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: advaita vedanta, dance, documentary, english, interview, mukabele, music, philip jacobs, rumi, spirituality, study society, sufism, video, whirling dervish

Dec 15 2015

Roy Whenary: Open Awareness

Roy Whenary, Westcombe, Sunset - The Culturium
Roy Whenary, Westcombe, Sunset.
Photograph: © 2017, Living in Open Awareness

The art of being

Written by Roy Whenary · Categorized: Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Arts · Tagged: advaita vedanta, guest post, in the mirror of life, inner peace, jean klein, living in open awareness, music, percy bysshe shelley, photography, poetry, roy whenary, starlight, the ease of being, the texture of being

Nov 12 2015

Hildegard of Bingen: Sibyl of the Rhine

Hildegard of Bingen, ‘Scivias: The Trinity’ - The Culturium
Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias:
The True Trinity in True Unity
.
Photograph: The Yorck Project,
[Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Polymath and mystic whose artistic and intellectual output was unsurpassed

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: christian mysticism, german, hildegard of bingen, liber divinorum operum, liber vitae meritorum, music, painting, prose, rupertsberg codex, scivias, spirituality, women

Oct 29 2015

John Cage: Silence

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Rob Bogaerts, John Cage.
Photograph: Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief,
[CC BY-SA 3.0 NL] Wikimedia Commons

How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Performing Arts · Tagged: 4'33", american, john cage, music, new world symphony, silence, sonatas and interludes

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