Classical Twaklin and the Art and Science of Global and Vocal Improvements

An enlightened education in the arts is just as important as a properly insightful education in the sciences.  Whilst science provides us with the best known ways of gaining knowledge, the arts provide us with the best known ways of using and sharing knowledge.


Here are some of my previous blog-pamphlet postings regarding science

Here are some of my previous blog-pamplet postings regarding the arts


If we are very fortunate indeed, the arts will allow us to experience what is most valuable in the world, namely a shared and suitably rational understanding of life and its meaning.  Improving the world certainly requires an enlightened understanding of what needs to be preserved and what needs to be improved.  Earlier this week, I discussed this topic with Mr Franz Schubert.

Do you dream about improving the world yourself, dear reader?  Perhaps you are even attempting to improve yourself.  It is certainly a very good place to start.

Are you doing something about turning your dreams into a reality?  And is your approach romantic or classical?

Mr Schubert arrived on my doorstep on Tuesday with a beautiful bunch of roses and a box of the finest chocolates for me.  He is a very romantic man, as you may know.  I, of course, formally noted his offerings in my statistically impeccable gift register before providing him with an official receipt in acknowledgement of his generosity, as well as a cup of tea and a kiss cake.

Unlike Mr Schubert, I believe that simplicity, order, clarity and proportion are necessary in households, social relationships, personal budgets, scientific activities, national economies and artistic pursuits.  As an enlightened ethereal leader of some distinction, however, I am quite fond of a lieder or two from time to time.  Whenever I wish to understand the words of a poetic song, Mr Google's translation service is very useful indeed.

I am frequently noted as a vocal critic of anything opaque, oblique, obsequious or overbearingly obnoxious.  An excellent singer of art songs is, most fortunately, unlikely to be a bearer of any of those distasteful characteristics.

Vocal purity and purity of intentions are always to be commended, and these are points upon which Mr Schubert and I are in some agreement.  Purity and clarity are essential when pursuing of any sort of improvement, whether as a scientist or as an artist, and even as both.  They are also essential in political and civic life, hence the importance of my own work.

I wonder if you believe romanticism, and even romance, should be regarded as aesthetic or pathetic.  And I wonder if you believe policies should be based on rhetoric or reality.