Russian is an even worse language for singing than German, but Russian composers

Russian is an even worse language for singing than German, but Russian composers produce some absolutely amazing works – one of which I have the luxury of listening to at the moment, accompanied by a middle aged Mezzo.

The eastern people also have time and discipline and still practice the manual arts. We have digital designers in the west but few manual artists remain. The inverse is true here in the east. People sing. They learn traditional music and folk music.

There is no small part of me that understands the difference between youthful desire for stimulation and adult appreciation of discipline, and that these two desires are in conflict. Either the impetuous young are taught discipline or they are later deprived of its results. The disciplined adult much deprive the impulsive child of the freedom of his impulses and direct them. The disciplined adult must tolerate enough desire for joy, that the discipline is used to convey it. Just as we transfer norms, laws, sciences, we must transfer our arts.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine