This is dedicated to Silly. I overheard my students talking about something which caught my ear (like the the eye of the wedding guest is caught by the Ancient Mariner). They were saying the word “chips” over and over again in a sort of soft voice. “Chips, chips, chips…” As I heard this auspicious sound, […]
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May 2012
Paul Spring‘s new eponymous album is available on iTunes. The music is excellent all around! It has top notch production quality. The lyrics walk the line between universal and particular, and the chord progressions with wailing harmonies are the backbone of the sound: they really set the tone of the whole album. This is most pronounced in the […]
Category: beauty, Folk Music, Hipster Schola, Music, University of Dallas, Wagon Wheel
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I often think of the act of creating great art as a balancing of universal and particular elements within a work. The artist must walk a tightrope, to borrow an idea from Juliette Aristides; his balancing act is between two extremes, but in order to keep his balance he must distribute his weight into both […]
Category: Art, beauty, Poetry, Shakespeare
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