Podcasts about plato's symposium

On today's date in 1998, in Purchase, New York, the Westchester Philharmonic gave the premiere performance of a new flute concerto by a 41-year old composer named Melinda Wagner. The soloist was Paul Lustig Dunkel, who had asked Wagner to write the concerto. Wagner's concerto won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1999—a gratifying mark of recognition for Wagner, who claims she had developed 20 years of calluses from all the rejections and minor defeats that are the common experience of most young composers in America. Along with the bumps and scrapes, Wagner also had picked up a number of other honors along the way, including awards, grants, and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, Meet the Composer and ASCAP, to name just a few. Wagner says her flute concerto took as its models the sound worlds of two famous 20th century compositions she admired: Bela Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste," and Leonard Bernstein's "Serenade, after Plato's Symposium." "Composition," says Wagner, "is like writing a kind of love letter to performers. They will be interpreting something that is incredibly personal, so it feels like a love affair. As for the audience, to try to try to second-guess them to figure out what they're going to like, and write that, would be an insult to them. I just hope they can plug into the communication that's happening between the performers and me."

On today's date in 1998, in Purchase, New York, the Westchester Philharmonic gave the premiere performance of a new flute concerto by a 41-year old composer named Melinda Wagner. The soloist was Paul Lustig Dunkel, who had asked Wagner to write the concerto. Wagner's concerto won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1999—a gratifying mark of recognition for Wagner, who claims she had developed 20 years of calluses from all the rejections and minor defeats that are the common experience of most young composers in America. Along with the bumps and scrapes, Wagner also had picked up a number of other honors along the way, including awards, grants, and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, Meet the Composer and ASCAP, to name just a few. Wagner says her flute concerto took as its models the sound worlds of two famous 20th century compositions she admired: Bela Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste," and Leonard Bernstein's "Serenade, after Plato's Symposium." "Composition," says Wagner, "is like writing a kind of love letter to performers. They will be interpreting something that is incredibly personal, so it feels like a love affair. As for the audience, to try to try to second-guess them to figure out what they're going to like, and write that, would be an insult to them. I just hope they can plug into the communication that's happening between the performers and me."

Connor and Jack dive into the poem that opens Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. Along the way they discuss Plato's Symposium, Walter Ong's writings on orality and literacy, and the historical significance of World War Two on the civil rights movement along with much more. You can learn more about Leslie Marmon Silko, here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/leslie-marmon-silko Excerpt from Ceremony By: Leslie Marmon Silko Ts’its’tsi’nako, Thought-Woman, is sitting in her room and whatever she thinks about appears. She thought of her sisters Nau’ts’ity’i and I’tcts’ity’i and together they created the Universe this world and the four worlds below. Thought-Woman, the spider, named things and as she named them they appeared. She is sitting in her room Thinking of a story now I’m telling you the story she is thinking. Ceremony I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren’t just for entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. You don’t have anything if you don’t have the stories. Their evil is mighty but it can’t stand up to our stories. So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten They would like that They would be happy Because we would be defenseless then. He rubbed his belly. I keep it in here [he said] Here, put your hand on it. See, it is moving. There is life here for the people. And in the belly of this story the rituals and the ceremony are still growing. What She Said: The only cure I know is a good ceremony, That’s what she said. Sunrise. Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking 
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This time I would like to share some context about Plato and Socrates as I dive into my notes on Plato's Symposium. Support me on patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/sketchmanboris My website: https://www.sketchmanboris.com Find me on ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/th/podcast/movie-messenger-podcast/id1428207611 Instagram: @sketchman_boris Intro music track from 1988 Records: 14-En immersion (Produit par Joe Pacino & Nightmare) 1988 Records : https://soundcloud.com/user-748564802 My Youtube channel for drawing tutorials: Sketchman boris https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxoLn4CXEw-9laufHrnRdhA?view_as=subscriber My Youtube channel about movies: Movie Messenger https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMqjiqRtbj3eAifYlWxOisA?view_as=subscriber

Will, Patman and Rugm0 continue looking at the work of Plato with Symposium, a series of speeches made in the hall of Agathon dedicated to the God of Love. BUY PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM NOW: https://amzn.to/2I2bb9I BUY PLATO'S REPUBLIC NOW: https://amzn.to/2YFazw5 BUY DIALOGUES OF SOCRATES NOW: https://amzn.to/2FSumk7 Matt on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt_P8VQuKVZLejC7S8h2vdA?ab_channel=MattAllison PatMan on Minds: https://www.minds.com/Patmanmeow Akira The Don on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/akirathedon?&ab_channel=AkiraTheDon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bookwave/support

Time for our first Brie Pick! Certified fresh, join the team as Sista and Megan are the rookies when it comes to Hedwig and the Angry Inch! This cult classic rock opera kept the team on their toes talking about the trans community, Plato's Symposium, and all the bouffant hair stylings of the late 80's/early 90's. Megan gets into the possible diagnoses of Hedwig's personality disorders. Sista tackles the unpacking of Hedwig's glittery layers. And Brie is convinced Hedwig is a Slytherin Princess, just like team mascot, Teagan Woo. Sit back and enjoy as our Scooby Gang rocks out with Hedwig! Alternative episode titles include: "Cute White Boys Rise Through The Ranks," "Tear Down the Wall! Tear Down the Binary!" "F*ck You Luther!" "Damn Girl, Reclaim Your Power!" "Tommy the Asshat," "F*ck Boi Dilemma," "Brie's Matching Butterfly Top!" "Paid in Kind with Pieces of the Berlin Wall," "Brie's All About the Reveals."

The origin of the concept of Soulmates, from Plato's Symposium. It's weird, but ultimately lovely.CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.Sources: Plato's Symposium, translated by Christopher Gill.Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The origin of the concept of Soulmates, from Plato's Symposium. It's weird, but ultimately lovely. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing. Sources: Plato's Symposium, translated by Christopher Gill. Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'Platonic love' is one of the most fascinating (and misunderstood) concepts to have come down to us from the ancient Greeks. Classicist Zina Giannopoulou joins us to set the record straight about the origins of the concept and what Plato's radical theory of love was all about. In this episode we discuss the book that first introduced this concept of Platonic love – the Symposium by Plato. The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue featuring a cast of characters who try to answer the elusive question, what is love? Zina Giannopoulou teaches classics at the University of California Irvine. She has written extensively on Plato and recently co-edited the Cambridge Critical Guide to Plato's Symposium, which presents the latest scholarship on Plato's dialogue. If you are inclined to read the Symposium, we recommend the English translation by Nehamas and Woodruff. This episode is introduced by Noah Tetzner, host of the “History of Vikings” podcast. Check out his amazing show on your podcast app or visit http://thehistoryofvikings.com/

More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/praise-love-platos-symposium-meets-bernsteins-serenade. Plato’s Symposium is arguably the most memorable philosophical work ever written on the subject of love. It is also the inspiration for Leonard Bernstein’s gorgeous violin concerto, the Serenade. What would Plato think of Bernstein’s Serenade, especially given his criticism of art and poetry? Is Bernstein more interested in what one of Plato’s drunken characters calls “vulgar love”? Or is he inspired by Platonic love – the highest form of love? How does Bernstein explore these themes through his music? In this special episode featuring violin virtuoso Anne Akiko Meyers and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, John and Ken talk to Brandi Parisi from All Classical Portland radio about love – its nature, its origin and its purpose – and music.

We take our cue from the final Classic Concert of the season and focus on Leonard Bernstein's Serenade (based on Plato's Symposium). Violinist (and Berstein soloist) Merwin Siu is in the house, along with our usual cast of characters. Also, brush up on your Plato with our special quiz of the day!

What is love? The various speeches in this dialogue attempt to answer this question, culminating in Diotima's claim that love is the desire to eternally contemplate and behold the form of beauty. Socrates then teaches his friends that philosophy supplies the means to do so. In this episode of Cryptosophy, Max and Doyle search for wisdom in one of Plato's most famous dialogues.

Join Lise, Jeff and Brian for another Platonic dialogue! Socrates and Alcibiades reappear at a party attended by several characters who decide to take turns praising Eros, who is often referred to in English as the “god of love.” As the dialogue progresses, we learn there is much more to love, or rather to “eros,” than sexual desire, and the characters’ conversation moves on to numerous other topics, including politics, law, and philosophy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. We conclude the week-long ramp-up to our next and third season with an interview with the legendary, charismatic Leonard Bernstein. Though mostly known for his work as a composer (West Side Story) and conductor (New York Philharmonic), Leonard Bernstein was also a consummate evangelist for classical music. This conversation focuses on Bernstein's efforts as a music educator and the role that education played for host Tim Page in his music criticism. Hear a piece of music you loved? Discover it here! 0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 0:49—Leonard Bernstein: Overture from Candide | Listen  | Buy1:13—Leonard Bernstein: "Maria," from West Side Story, feat. Jose Carreras | Listen | Buy 2:33—Gioachino Rossini: Overture from William Tell | Listen | Buy2:49—Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story | Listen | Buy 3:44—Leonard Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" | Listen | Buy 6:11—Leonard Bernstein: Suite from Candide | Listen | Buy 7:16—Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront | Listen | Buy 9:12—Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety" | Listen | Buy 10:37—Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety" | Listen | Buy 

This week we discuss the nature of love with Socrates and friends in one of Plato's most famous dialogues, the Symposium. 

Connor and Dan discuss the philosophy of Plato's Symposium.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium, one of the Greek philosopher's most celebrated works. Written in the 4th century BC, it is a dialogue set at a dinner party attended by a number of prominent ancient Athenians, including the philosopher Socrates and the playwright Aristophanes. Each of the guests speaks of Eros, or erotic love. This fictional discussion of the nature of love, how and why it arises and what it means to be in love, has had a significant influence on later thinkers, and is the origin of the modern notion of Platonic love. With: Angie Hobbs Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield Richard Hunter Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge Frisbee Sheffield Director of Studies in Philosophy at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Producer: Thomas Morris.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium, one of the Greek philosopher's most celebrated works. Written in the 4th century BC, it is a dialogue set at a dinner party attended by a number of prominent ancient Athenians, including the philosopher Socrates and the playwright Aristophanes. Each of the guests speaks of Eros, or erotic love. This fictional discussion of the nature of love, how and why it arises and what it means to be in love, has had a significant influence on later thinkers, and is the origin of the modern notion of Platonic love. With: Angie Hobbs Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield Richard Hunter Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge Frisbee Sheffield Director of Studies in Philosophy at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Producer: Thomas Morris.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium, one of the Greek philosopher's most celebrated works. Written in the 4th century BC, it is a dialogue set at a dinner party attended by a number of prominent ancient Athenians, including the philosopher Socrates and the playwright Aristophanes. Each of the guests speaks of Eros, or erotic love. This fictional discussion of the nature of love, how and why it arises and what it means to be in love, has had a significant influence on later thinkers, and is the origin of the modern notion of Platonic love. With: Angie Hobbs Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield Richard Hunter Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge Frisbee Sheffield Director of Studies in Philosophy at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Producer: Thomas Morris.

In this week's episode, we learn about Plato's "Symposium", which you might think of as philosophy's version of fan fiction. We also learn about Plato's "Theory of Forms" and ask ourselves what makes a tree, well, a tree. This leads to discussion of Plato's famous "Allegory of the Cave" and calls into question whether or not everything we see is merely a shadow of its true self. Finally, we learn about Plato's views on society and government and why he thought democracy was one of the worst forms of government, second only to tyranny. Support the show on Patreon! www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :)

Lani Anderson questions the characters Socrates claim in Plato's Symposium that we only desire what we lack. The excerpt is from a lecture from "The Art of Living." (September 29, 2010)

Nicolas de Warren reads an excerpt from Plato's Symposium translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, published by Hackett Publishing Company. (7:05) "It's obvious that every soul of every lover longs for something else. A soul cannot say what it is, but like an oracle, it has a sense of what it wants, and like an oracle, it hides behind a riddle."

Plato's Symposium is the most famous philosophical discussion of love, its joys, risks and pleasures. In this episode of Philosophy Bites Angie Hobbs gives a lively account of what Plato thought about erotic love.