This weekend while listening to the Chicago Symphony accompany pianist Valentina Lisista performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #5 it occurred to me that music and art in general composed, performed or created today rarely strives to improve us. It rarely strives for to push us to push us to strive for and to see ideals of good and beauty but instead more often reaches (down?) for “authenticity” and to touch or arouse our raw emotional responses. What can be learned from probing the change in our motives and aims of our art?

Again I want to write more about this … and will work on it but time didn’t permit developing a longer essay last night. This essay has ideas which I think are not unrelated to the probing of that matter as well.

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