The Choral Contrarians
A couple of friendly conductors bantering about complex issues affecting the choral world.
The Choral Contrarians
The Nihilism of Accomplishment. Feat. Dr. Jeremiah Cawley
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Eric Barnum and Richard Robbins
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Season 3
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Episode 8
Richard and Eric are joined by returning guest Dr. Jeremiah Cawley to discuss a special and controversial quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground." The thought process of the examined quote is guided by a YouTuber "Thoughts on Thinking," and the road leads to some broad and substantial questions about a human's relationship to process, purpose, goals, accomplishment, and despair. Is what you think you want not what you want at all? Is the process of completion a hidden key for satisfaction or a trap? Does this topic relate somehow to music making?
https://www.thoughtsonthinking.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC2SfbWrgFA