“…Leisure, is an attitude of inner un-preoccupiedness, is that form of being silent which is a prerequisite for attending to reality: only one who is silent can hear. Leisure is an attitude of receptive listening, of intuitive, contemplative immersion
in being. It stands as it were, perpendicular to the normal course of a business day it is not, like the work break, a part of that day; it stands in the same relation to the workday as the simple gaze of the intellectus does to the ongoing process of
discursive thought.”
― Josef Pieper, For the Love of Wisdom
PROVERBS 2:10-22
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways.
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
THE PRAYER OF GENERAL CONFESSION
Almighty and most merciful Father; we have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our hearts. We have of ended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done’ and there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable of enders. Spare thou them, O God which confess their faults. Restore thou them that are penitent; according thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of thy holy Name. 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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