Revolution has been the slogan and banner for generations of creative idealists. But they seem more concerned with a love of transgression than of life.

Modernity consists of perversions of notions drawn from Christianity; to be a modern means to be deeply enmeshed in them.

Engagement with the riches of a culture is a learning process which develops our capacity to make value judgments.

The search for spirituality seems ubiquitous these days, but is it transcendent of anything?

Music exists to provide us with sacred moments, inklings of the Other in a profane world.

Paradoxically, while our civilization grows old, it is our past that we label as aged and the day itself as eternally young.

Can the recovery of music be, at least partially, a product of faith?

Music as symbol is the whole of all things. It is the world.

Music offers assures us that there is something out there in the world that knows our hearts.

The history of instrumental music and that of the cult of listening are interwoven with the history of the Church.

Adorno’s concept has the advantage of wrapping music up in an impenetrable web of self-meanings.