Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Can we perform and enjoy something like this and then simply walk away from it? Even "facing it" with discussion implies that discussion absolves the performers of any damage done. Yet the alternative is to stop performing the St. John Passion, a piece that is moving even to many whom...
But while performers may distract themselves with technical and aesthetic tasks, audiences have a more difficult time. Unlike instrumental pieces in which the drama is abstract, the St. John Passion has at its center a highly problematic text, simultaneously sacred and offensive. The audience member, whether he or she is...
This seems to be the general premise behind this vision of Pericles, whose framing device--a basketball court infested by pre-adolescents--sets the stage for the play's ruling aesthetic: a massive, hallucinatory flashback to middle school. The "players," a group of kids whose dress and language evoke a...
Guzell also opposes the redesign for aesthetic reasons. "[The median] is a focal point that can be beautiful at low cost," she said.
Lamentably, libertarian sentiment has given way to aesthetic preference and paternalism. Perhaps the Harvard administration just didn't think that we looked particularly scholarly munching on sandwiches as we crossed the Yard.