“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little
luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love
is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
EPHESIANS 4:1-7
1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
ST. THOMAS’S PRAYER BEFORE DESIRE
Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of our understanding. Take from us the double darkness in which we have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give us keen understanding, retentive memories, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant us the talent of being exact in our explanations and the ability to express ourselves with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in the completion. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
ART APPRECIATION
The Thinker was originally intended to represent the poet Dante as he contemplated writing his Divine Comedy. Rodin also paid tribute to Michelangelo in his sculpture by making his figure muscular and valiant. The Thinker has become known all over the world as a symbol of philosophy and knowledge.
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1970) was born in Paris and studied drawing and painting at the Petite Ecole, a school that specialized in art and mathematics. When he was seventeen, Rodin submitted a sculpture to the Grand Ecole, a renowned art school, but he was not accepted into the school even after several attempts. Rodin earned a living as a craftsman, ornamentor, and art director of a porcelain factory until he gained prominence as an artist. Rodin was accused of taking a cast from a living model. He was later cleared of this charge. Although Rodin is often considered a leader in modern sculpture, he was schooled traditionally and took a craftsmanlike approach to his work.
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MUSIC APPRECIATION
| Gone with the Wind Soundtrack Suite |
The score for Gone With the Wind, by Max Steiner (1888 – 1971), is one of the greatest and best-known of all film music and is the highest and most immediate representation of music of Hollywood’s pre-World War II Golden Age.
David O. Selznick was halfway through shooting the immense Southern epic when, in March 1939, he sent a memo to the general manager of his studios that it was time to engage a composer and suggested Max Steiner. The Viennese-born Steiner was already a ten-year veteran of scoring sound pictures. Steiner, who had lived in the U.S. since 1915, working primarily in theatrical music, is credited as being the first to use non-source music (i.e., the audience does not see where the music comes from and, as Steiner realized, does not care) and the first to use music under dialogue. In King Kong (1933), he pioneered the use of leading motives, themes associated with characters or dramatic symbols that can be developed in parallel with the dramatic development in films.
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Max Steiner (1888-1971) was more so than any other iconic Hollywood film composer, a difficult sell for contemporary audiences. On the one hand, in Hollywood he was and remains universally acknowledged as the “father of film music.” As a composer, Steiner’s music had extraordinary influence on the techniques, approaches, and conventions that remain the foundation of film music in the Western world. It was Steiner who established the Wagnerian leitmotif convention for cinema, Steiner who pioneered the click track, Steiner who gave us the concept of “Mickey Mousing” (though that certainly isn’t what he called it), Steiner who made people realize the role that music can play in establishing a picture’s sense of spectacle, and Steiner who established the defining cultural music idioms in nearly every genre he touched.4
- Lange, Krista, and Leigh Lowe. First Grade Enrichment: Classical Core Curriculum. Teacher Guide. Memoria Press, 2017. ↩︎
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- Stevenson , Joseph. “Gone with the Wind, Film Score: Details.” AllMusic, http://www.allmusic.com/composition/gone-with-the-wind-film-score-mc0002372144. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
↩︎ - Cote, Paul. “Max Steiner.” IFMCA: International Film Music Critics Association, 10 June 2012, filmmusiccritics.org/ifmca-legends/max-steiner/#:~:text=Max%20Steiner%2C%20perhaps%20more%20so,difficult%20sell%20for%20contemporary%20audiences.
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