The Culture Club

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  • The Culture Club: Theme for November-December 2008

    Here are the works we’ll be looking at for the next couple of months. We’ll be focusing on two American poets of the 20th century: Wallace Stevens The Poems of Our Climate Of Mere Being The Course of a Particular Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Domination of Black Nomad Exquisite Not Ideas About…

  • The Culture Club: Theme for August-September

    Here are the works we’ll be looking at for the next couple of months. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (Fiction) The Hollow Men – T.S. Eliot (Poetry) Apocalypse Now Redux – Directed by Francis Ford Coppola (Movies) Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) – Ludwig van Beethoven (Music)

  • I’m Back

    Apologies for the absence of updates on the Culture Club blog. The Culture Club has still been running strong (we’ve had two meetings since my last post here), but I’ve been unable to update the blog for the past few months. This has been down to issues at work and home taking up lots of…

  • The Culture Club: Theme for April-May 2008

    More love-related shenanigans for the next Culture Club session. The works we will be absorbing and discussing between now and the next meeting are as follows: Troilus and Cressida – William Shakespeare (Drama) Troilus and Criseyde – Geoffrey Chaucer (Poetry) Jean de Florette & Manon de Source – Directed by Claude Berri (Movies) Carmen –…

  • The Culture Club: Theme for January-March 2008

    January-March 2008 For our next session we’re taking ‘love’ as our theme. The works we will be absorbing and discussing between now and the next meeting on the 18th March 2008 are as follows: First Love and Other Novellas – Samuel Beckett (Fiction) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (Fiction) Poems of 1912-1913 (The Emma Poems)…

  • Mahler and Hesse: What the Water Tells Me

    Mahler’s composing hut in Steinbach. (Photograph courtesy of Alex Ross) Gustav Mahler was working on his Symphony No. 2 in 1894 when he decided to build a composing hut in a lakeside meadow in Steinbach. The builder who constructed the hut was a man named Franz Lösch, and in an interview with a Viennese journal…

  • Thomas Mann on Spirituality in Art

    Terry Teachout’s quote of the day at About Last Night is relevant for our discussion on sprituality in art. It’s from Thomas Mann’s Reflections of an Unpolitical Man. Art is a conservative power, the strongest of all; it preserves spiritual possibilities that without it–perhaps–would die out.

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  • The Culture Club: Theme for October-December 2007

    For our next session we’re taking spirituality as our theme, with a leaning towards German artists. The works we will be absorbing and discussing between now and the next meeting on the 13th December 2007 are as follows: Siddharta – Hermann Hesse (Novel) The Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke (Poetry) Wings of Desire –…

  • The Culture Club: Theme For July-October 2007

    We’ve got a big gap between meetings, mainly due to holidays and other commitments. For the next few months, then, we’ll be looking at a group of poets, including Ted Hughes and Emily Dickinson. So far the only confirmed works are the following poems by Elizabeth Bishop: The Moose Sandpiper One Art The Shampoo Arrival…