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MUSIC
Aural Journey Into the Spiritual
The White Light Festival Seeks the Cosmic in the Concert
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
SEPT. 3, 2014
Jane Moss, the artistic director of Lincoln Center, took a lot of kidding, even some carping, from concertgoers and critics when she inaugurated the White Light
Festival in 2010. The lofty goal of this venture was to explore the power of music and the arts to reveal the dimensions of our inner lives. The programs, Ms. Moss asserted, would offer a “spectrum of artistic expression that moves us inward and expands our spirit.”
Talk about thinking big.
But really, as skeptics were quick to point out, isn’t all music spiritual in some essential way? Doesn’t all art take us inward and expand out sensibilities? As I wrote at the time, for all the antics, magic and silliness of Mozart’s “The Magic
Flute,” this singspiel is just as mystical as Mozart’s Requiem. After all, the opera is the spiritual journey of a searching young prince, whose life is altered by falling in love and by encountering a wise but deeply flawed mentor.
Still, that first festival offered a rich and unusual range of programs, from performances of Brahms’s “German Requiem,” to a Chinese martial-arts-inspired dance work, to a telling of the biblical story of Judith using Croatian verse and folk tunes. If anything, subsequent festivals have become even more ambitious. And popular. It turns out Ms. Moss’s hunch was right. Audiences have embraced the
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The White Light Festival Seeks the Cosmic in the Concert - N...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/arts/music/fall-arts-previe...
chance White Light affords to adopt a receptive mind-set and become immersed in music that consciously explores spiritual realms.
The 2014 White Light Festival, the fifth, which
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/arts/music/fall-arts-previe...
http://nyti.ms/1pL6z8F
MUSIC
Aural Journey Into the Spiritual
The White Light Festival Seeks the Cosmic in the Concert
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
SEPT. 3, 2014
Jane Moss, the artistic director of Lincoln Center, took a lot of kidding, even some carping, from concertgoers and critics when she inaugurated the White Light
Festival in 2010. The lofty goal of this venture was to explore the power of music and the arts to reveal the dimensions of our inner lives. The programs, Ms. Moss asserted, would offer a “spectrum of artistic expression that moves us inward and expands our spirit.”
Talk about thinking big.
But really, as skeptics were quick to point out, isn’t all music spiritual in some essential way? Doesn’t all art take us inward and expand out sensibilities? As I wrote at the time, for all the antics, magic and silliness of Mozart’s “The Magic
Flute,” this singspiel is just as mystical as Mozart’s Requiem. After all, the opera is the spiritual journey of a searching young prince, whose life is altered by falling in love and by encountering a wise but deeply flawed mentor.
Still, that first festival offered a rich and unusual range of programs, from performances of Brahms’s “German Requiem,” to a Chinese martial-arts-inspired dance work, to a telling of the biblical story of Judith using Croatian verse and folk tunes. If anything, subsequent festivals have become even more ambitious. And popular. It turns out Ms. Moss’s hunch was right. Audiences have embraced the
1 of 3
9/14/14, 4:21 PM
The White Light Festival Seeks the Cosmic in the Concert - N...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/arts/music/fall-arts-previe...
chance White Light affords to adopt a receptive mind-set and become immersed in music that consciously explores spiritual realms.
The 2014 White Light Festival, the fifth, which