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A footnote to Hasty, Whitehead, and Plato: more thoughts on Stefan Wolpe's music.(Critical Essay)
RATHER THAN RESPOND DIRECTLY to Christopher Hasty's lovely and inspiring paper, I want to think about Wolpe's "ever-restored and ever-advancing witnessing moment" and Hasty's point that we may not know how to think about the "vividness of a moment that is new and now." Hasty's invocation of Whitehead's ideas of Beauty, and their connections to "process metaphysics," will play a covert role in what I have to say.
Let me begin by repeating something I've frequently overheard: that Wolpe's music, especially the late music, in its gestural and kinetic character, suggests that Wolpe is performing his musical thoughts and feelings in addition to merely making music out ...
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