An Array of Utopian Flowers
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An Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’
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Green Banking: Toward A Regenerative Economy
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THE BOTTLE SCAM: Land, Water, and Indigenous Rights – Plastic Plague Pt. 5
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THROWAWAY SOCIETY: Economics & Inequity of (Plastic) Consumption – Plastic Plague Pt 4
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The BirdHouse: Reconnecting People & Place through Arts & Ecology
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Stephen Vessels Archive
Once a Classical Giant, Then Obscure, Felix Draeseke Rediscovered
Posted on November 3, 2016 | No CommentsStephen Vessels continues his series on rare examples of underappreciated classical music composers from around the world. Felix Draeseke of Germany, once dubbed a "giant" by Franz Liszt, fell into obscurity until only recently.
Vasif Adigezalov’s Mad Mugham Laboratory of Classical Music
Posted on June 20, 2016 | No CommentsStephen Vessels continues his series on rare examples of underappreciated classical music composers from around the world. This stop, Azerbaijan's Vasif Adigezalov, best known for incorporating traditional modal mugham music into his works.
Gershwin’s Reluctant Kaleidoscope of America in ‘Rhapsody in Blue’
Posted on January 1, 2016 | 4 CommentsWith reluctance, George Gershwin, commissioned by the self-styled King of Jazz in 1920s New York, composed his "musical kaleidoscope of America," Rhapsody in Blue. Stephen Vessels curates the discussion.
Pursuit of Beauty: William Alwyn’s Classical Romanticism
Posted on August 11, 2015 | No CommentsRising from the East Anglian shadows of Benjamin Britten, William Alwyn's prolific compositions and pioneering film scores from the 1940s-50s set him apart in 20th Century classical music. Stephen Vessels curates the discussion.
German Composer’s Paean to a Healing Work of Renaissance Art
Posted on March 18, 2015 | 1 CommentOne of the 20th Century's most influential composers, Paul Hindemith created the neo-classical-folk-inspired symphony Mathis der Maler, based on the life of the mysterious 16th Century painter Matthias Grunewald, whose masterpiece associated Saint Anthony and the Virgin Mary with the miraculous cure of the epidemic skin disease called St. Anthony's Fire.
Book Review: Monte Schulz’s Roaring 20s Memory Palace “The Big Town”
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 1 CommentSchulz crafts an extraordinary picture of urban life in the Roaring 20s, where modern dreamers and their romantic illusions collide with American wealth and decadence on the eve of the Great Depression.
