Jazz, the Opposites, & Ourselves! at Aesthetic Realism Foundation

This thrilling event features a dramatic presentation of "The Orderly Extreme," in which Eli Siegel, poet and critic and founder of Aesthetic Realism, discussed Shelby Foote's moving novella titled "Ride Out," about a jazz musician. In it, Mr. Siegel said: "This is one of the best things about music I know--also about people.... If you can let go and still be orderly, you're an artist. The motto for Jazz is Professor Tiger." Also on the program will be "Ellington & Aesthetic Realism"-- passages from Edward Green's introduction to the just-published Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, edited by Dr...

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This thrilling event features a dramatic presentation of "The Orderly Extreme," in which Eli Siegel, poet and critic and founder of Aesthetic Realism, discussed Shelby Foote's moving novella titled "Ride Out," about a jazz musician. In it, Mr. Siegel said: "This is one of the best things about music I know--also about people.... If you can let go and still be orderly, you're an artist. The motto for Jazz is Professor Tiger." Also on the program will be "Ellington & Aesthetic Realism"-- passages from Edward Green's introduction to the just-published Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, edited by Dr. Green. He writes: "I learned from Aesthetic Realism...:"art shows reality as it truly is--the oneness of opposites. There are, in Ellington's finest works, a true composition of roughness and velvet smoothness....The Mooche is an example of the power of art to find something joyous in uncomfortable territory."

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