The White Light Festival
The New York Times classical music critics and a reporter are discussing Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, music and spirituality.
White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony
By STEVE SMITH
The message is not that classical music is lofty, beautiful, cultured or superior. It is that some classical music - and some Indian devotional music, and some speculative early-music theater, and some kung fu-related dance - can provide the same contemplative conduit that yoga, meditation or, perhaps, psychoanalysis do.
White Light Festival: A Tribute to Belief
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Virgil Thomson, who grew up in a Baptist family and was a church organist in his youth, was never susceptible to religion, even as a child. Yet like his student Mr. Rorem, Thomson wrote many deeply felt sacred works.
White Light Festival: The Proof Is in the Reviews
By ALLAN KOZINN
And speaking of the personal side of spirituality, I have to say that for all the cross-cultural variety that has been cited on the festival's behalf, I found that my own spiritual interests were entirely unrepresented.
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