A man falls off a
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and doesn't get hurt,
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how come?
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A man falls off of a ten
ReplyDeletestory building and doesn't
get hurt, how come?
He was wearing a "light Fall"
suit.
Classically Sexy:
ReplyDeleteBaring It All for Art?
A colleague of mine recently went shopping for CDs. He was greeted at
the store by a life-sized cutout of a beautiful young singer wearing a
tight-fitting, low-cut dress.
The size and placement of the cutout made it hard not to look at it.
Since he knew that the singer was all of sixteen, he left without
buying anything.
Sadly, this kind of marketing is all too common in the pop music field.
But my colleague was not shopping for popular music. He was in the
classical section of the record store.
Here, too, artists, instead of baring their souls for the sake of
music, have taken to baring their skin for the sake of sales. Plunging
necklines and even partial nudity have become common on classical CD
covers.
Patrick Kavanaugh, the artistic director of the Masterworks Festival,
wonders "why so many brilliant classical musicians have stooped to
disrobing in order to sell Bach partitas . . . " Case in point:
violinist Lara St. John. The cover of her 1996 recording, BACH: WORKS
FOR SOLO VIOLIN, featured St. John naked, with only "her strategically
placed violin to cover her."
While the cover created a ruckus, the CD sold "phenomenally well for a
classical recording" and set a precedent that other record companies
were prepared to follow.
Some people may dismiss concerns about low necklines on CD covers as
prudery, but as Kavanaugh says, the real issue here may be "the future
of classical music."
This "sex sells" approach diminishes and demeans the music. As John
Kasica of the St. Louis Symphony told Kavanaugh, this approach "draws
all your attention to the performers rather than to the music." It
takes "away from the depth of the music itself" and turns artistry
into, at best, a secondary concern.
As Kavanaugh points out, artists have been "practicing six to eight
hours a day from the [age] of five." As if that weren't enough, now
they have to look like centerfolds as well.
There is another way this marketing diminishes the music. Violinist
Lisa-Beth Lambert of the Philadelphia Orchestra says that selling a
"spiritually uplifting product" through such "degrading means" is
"incongruent."
It's more than incongruent; it's disrespectful. Names like Bach,
Beethoven, and Mozart are rightly regarded as synonymous with "genius."
Their output represents high-water marks of Western civilization.
What Lambert calls the music's "spiritual uplift" is a function of how,
in the creation of great art, man reflects his own creation in the
image of God. It was through great music that C. S. Lewis first
glimpsed that "joy" that led him to Christ.
Great music provides us with a glimpse of transcendence. It is a gift
from God, which is why the Bach violin works that St. John played were
signed SDG -- soli Deo gloria -- by their composer.
And it is why Christians should be outraged by this crass marketing
approach -- not only because it is another example of our culture's
obsession with sex, but also because it is another example of our
culture's inability to recognize what's worthwhile, trading the
exhilaration of great music for the titillation of plunging necklines.
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Seventy-five years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt comforted a frightened nation
ReplyDeletein the depths of the Great Depression with an inaugural speech that began
with a call to endure. He then added, "[L]et me assert my firm belief
that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."(1) His words sought
to address the very spirit of depression, the fear exuding from great
uncertainty, the diminishing morale of a country racked with hunger and
unemployment.
A very different speech from a very different character makes a similar
observation about fearing fear itself. But adding to FDR's admonition,
Master Yoda from Stars Wars encourages his audience to answer this
fear of fear itself with a philosophy of detachment. "Fear is the path to
the Dark Side," says Yoda to young Anakin. "Train yourself to let go of
everything you fear to lose."(2)
Among the many voices encouraging us to fear and act on our fears, these
two voices of dissent give us much to think about. Roosevelt essentially
asked a fearful nation to take account of the ways in which fear and
pessimism can paralyze us. Fear is to be feared for this quality, he
firmly believed. Yoda called for a far more defensive approach. The Jedi
way encouraged the achievement of fearlessness by way of the refuge of
detachment. Both thoughts bid us to ask questions about the nature of
fear and its proper place within our lives. If we are looking for a
Christian alternative to the culture of fear around us is fearlessness the
answer? What about detachment? Do we really do well to fear fear itself?
In the midst of our own economic discomfort and sense of worldwide
anxieties, it is not an unhelpful suggestion to make ourselves aware of
fear's confining grip upon our lives. Our fears can perhaps rightfully be
included among the thoughts Paul tells us to take captive, particularly
those fears that set themselves up against the knowledge of God. (One
cannot live in constant fear of death where there is a sound knowledge of
Christ's resurrection; nor can one be held captive by the imagination of
future evil whose future is in the hands of a faithful God.) Yet while
fear can indeed paralyze us from life itself, fearlessness can be a
similar vice. As Yoda observes, true fearlessness would be attainable
only through complete detachment to everything and everyone around us. If
we loved nothing at all, we would have nothing to fear, but so we would be
paralyzed from life in an entirely different way.
In this sense, we find that fear itself is often born out of love. The
great love of a parent toward a child fuels the birth of great fears for
this child. Likewise, we fear danger and uncertainty because they
threaten the things we love most. Understanding the roots of our fears,
we perhaps discover we the one thing we do not have to fear is fear
itself. Rather, if we can attempt to understand and utilize our fears,
they can serve to awaken us, to lead us into deeper knowledge and
relationship, to foster life and love in the places where they have been
neglected. Fear, in this sense, can be seen as a gift that brings us to
wisdom, to greater love, to God Himself.
Indeed, on an evening just days before the American election, with
national uncertainty at its height, I was invited to sing Amazing
Grace at a worship service, and it seems I heard these familiar words
for the first time:
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
What we remember in these words is the first moment that the love of God
bowled us over with love for God, when the grace of the Father
moved our hearts to fear the thought of life without Him. This same love
reminds us that God is not going anywhere. Our fears of losing or even
harming our relationship with God are relieved by the same grace that
overwhelmed us. Author Scott Bader-Saye describes the fear of God in
similar terms: "Like a child who fears harming her relationship with her
parents more than she fears being 'grounded' for doing wrong, our fear of
God has to do with a proper desire not to be separated from God. Because
we love God, we fear anything that would harm our relationship with
God."(3) In this world of potential losses, deep cynicisms, and fearful
circumstances, might we find this perfect love in such a way that casts
out our fears and draws us even nearer.
Jill Carattini is managing editor of A Slice of Infinity at Ravi
Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
(1) Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4,
1933, full text available at http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres49.html.
(2) Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace, written and directed
by George Lucas (20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm Ltd., 1999) and Star
Wars: Episode III-- Revenge of the Sith, 2005.
(3) Scott Bader-Saye Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear (Grand
Rapids; Brazos Press, 2007), 44.
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