Center. He experience a talented writer. Gregs project is ambitious. As he spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the life and times of 10 airmen aboard the between four liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1. As we will hear, he has a personal connection to this story and he has traced the lives of the fallen servicemen, situated them within a larger andy of combat in europe has reflected on his own personal journeys to the village in southern austria where the man disappeared. Willis the research we hear about today and it will inform his forthcoming book on the subject. Greg jones has been a Foreign Correspondent and investigative journalist for more than 30 years. He is the author of honor in the dust. Received stand, which a marine corps green junior award and red revolution which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Foras been a staff writer the los angeles times, dallas morning news, and the atlantic journal and constitution. He is covered the philippines a
Papers. That is because a title announces what is at stake for a lease hopefully announces what is at stake. I hope as nature as a saint, is that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it is a walt emerson quote. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. Though nature as we know it is drawn rum Ralph Waldo Emersons essay called experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives we like. How would we make sense of ourselves. How would we make sense of our world world. That is to say, we did not have our inherited elysian telling us how to make sense of our religion. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the indication of what and right of what right and wrong is. And then he goes on to show us why that is so hard to do. Yes, experience is a
Is at stake. Saint, isnature as a that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it walt emerson quote. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. Though nature as we know it is drawn rum Ralph Waldo Emersons experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives we like. How would we make sense of ourselves. How would we make sense of our world world. Say, we did not have our inherited elysian telling us how to make sense of our religion. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the indication of what and right of what right and wrong is. And then he goes on to show us why that is so hard to do. Yes, experience is a thorny thing. He wrestles with it in the piece. What i love about this piece is why y the title, which ill explain in a little bit, but
Lease hopefully announces what is at stake. Hopefully, it is colorful and draws you in. I hope as nature as a saint, is nature as we know her is no saint is that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it is a walt emerson quote. A contemporary of melville, someone who was in his intellectual orbit. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. So nature as we know it is drawn from Ralph Waldo Emersons essay called experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives be like . How would we make sense of ourselves . How would we make sense of our moral world if we came into original relationship with the universe . That is to say, we did not have our inherited religion telling us to make sense of our world. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the
State of deplorable barbarism. It was used to rally support, but what americans used music to rally support for very considerably. Or it could also energize scorn. These songs were easily learned byear. By ear. Songs also served as a kind of shorthand because the melodies were easily recognized, a couple measures could evoke a whole set of political debate. Also, songs could be performed collectively, quite a different experience from listening to a speech. And through various modes, songs could evoke different kinds of emotion. For all of these reasons, the chief medical factions of today had their own songs. Such uses of music were not unique to the early republic, but could be found across many times and places. There were ways that music played a special or distinctive role in early u. S. Culture and can help us and the discipline of musicology can help us discover them. Musicologists study music in many different ways, most fundamentally for our purposes tonight, historical musico