“Music the Primal Art”

In 1939-1940 Stravinsky delivered the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures at Harvard University. They were entitled Poetics of Music. I feel certain that whoever came up with the title was not a musician. For it is backwards.

2025-08-15T13:45:58-04:00September 6, 2020|

Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond

From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.

2025-08-15T13:45:59-04:00September 1, 2020|

“At the Supermarket”

Outside the supermarket I was immediately attracted to – by – some wondrous patterns on a white traffic line. Of course, I started to photograph them.

2025-08-15T13:45:59-04:00August 30, 2020|

Video: Mood vs. Emotion – Part 2

Dr. Diamond discusses how mood encompasses emotion. Every mood is a particular ratio of Matrophilia (love of the mother) to matrodeima (fear of the mother), which overarches the specific emotional problems we might have at a

2025-08-15T13:45:59-04:00August 25, 2020|

“Music as Magic”

Listening, loving, Max Goberman and Meistersinger, I find myself exclaiming “Magic!” What did I mean? What does magic mean?

2025-08-15T13:45:59-04:00August 23, 2020|

Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond

From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.

2025-08-15T13:45:59-04:00August 18, 2020|

“The Etymology of ‘Soul'”

I find it puzzling that no deep etymology has been found for our word soul, “the spiritual part of a person.” It first appears in Old English as sawol about 725. But from where did it come? We don’t know.

2025-08-15T13:45:59-04:00August 16, 2020|
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