George Steiner on Myths and Music

George Steiner’s keynote lecture on music at the 2010 Nexus Conference ‘What’s Next for the West? Superman meets Beethoven’, on 11 June in Amsterdam. nexus-instituut.nl/en/activit...

[@ydraki]

People like HIM should live forever. His wisdom is infinite, admirable.

[@raggedclown]

Thank you. George is an intellectual hero of mine.

[@davidmaxted893]

raggedclown He had an amazing way of putting things

[@vincenzoditoma5757]

I have to stop at Steiner's every sentence in order to savour its infinite spectrum, its unparalleled magnitude...

[@USER-jo7yz]

Sharp and accurate commentator! A rare wise intellectual! Thank you George for your contribution to humanity! A real Jewish endeavor.

[@freeri87]

Please give us the full lecture.

[@ronsedlak4019]

Awesome message

[@S.Lander]

I remember reading 'Tolstoy OR Dostoevsky' 40-odd years ago and profiting from it: a kind of astrology of two types of readers. I don't remember that he took sides, unlike Nabokov (who favored Tolstoy). I didn't realize that this was his first book.
I remember being kind of amazed that he would write a book about Fischer-Spassky 1972, 'Fields of Force'.
The indices of his books were always reading lists of the Great Books. No wonder he had so few people to talk to.
Like Allan Bloom, and Leo Strauss, when someone like Steiner dies, a final light in the world goes out.

[@spinoz2319]

So there is no light in the air anymore? Nonsense. I AM here, aren't you. You are. Light. Right.

[@spinoz2319]

@@johnmulligan455 Just mind about your own understanding or lack of it. Steiner was a great critic and reader, indeed, but not a great creator or an artist of any depth.

[@davidmaxted893]

RIP GEORGE😞

[@bevaconme]

it wasn't the concertgebouw (which is in amsterdam); it was the philharmonie.

[@jesuispeanut264]

breaking news: great novels refused to be read by YA apologists.

[@stephensharp3033]

Do you mean Arafat?