Music and Nature — The Sublime Intersection

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<p data-key="39">&ldquo;If nature be the food of music, play on!&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;<em data-slate-leaf="true">Sravaspeare</em></p>

<p data-key="42">Aryaloka is pleased to host another investigation into the workings of music with Sravaniya (Mark Latham), Music Director of the New Hampshire Philharmonic. Sravaniya asks: How do music and nature intersect? What can we learn from this intersection? What can composers&#39; depictions of nature and inspirations from her, tell us about ourselves; about the world &mdash; about Reality itself? About Beauty?</p>

<p data-key="44">All of the great Western composers have found in nature a deep vein of creative inspiration. By exploring a few mostly symphonic works in which Nature plays an important part, we will unravel a little bit that eternal triangle: the composer/artist&rsquo;s relationship to Nature; our relationship to the the creative work; and our own responses to Nature and the environment. And how does a composer depict in or through music a thunderstorm; a nightingale; a moonlit night?</p>

<p data-key="46">As well as hearing and looking at some great music (Beethoven, Debussy, Smetena, Berlioz etc), we will have plenty of time for questions and reflections, and some deep listening.</p>

<p data-key="48">Sravaniya (Mark Latham) is Music Director of the New Hampshire Philharmonic. Sravaniya was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 2003, having first encountered meditation and the FWBO (later the Triratna Buddhist Community) in the UK in 1978. His name, inspired by an episode in the biography of Milarepa, means &ldquo;Delightful to listen to&rdquo; or &ldquo;Worthy of being heard.&rdquo; Sravaniya works as a professional orchestral conductor and violinist, and co-facilitates the Boston Triratna group.&nbsp;<a data-key="50" href="https://www.nhphil.org/music-director">Read his professional bio here.</a></p>

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data-slate-leaf="true">Image detail from Monet&#39;s &#39;An Orchard in Spring&#39;</em></p>