Ragtime #6 - Streets of Consciousness

Ragtime #6 - Streets of Consciousness: Few might imagine that a most celebrated street musician is in fact a brilliant academic intellect, composer, painter, poet, as well as a highly credentialed philosopher with extensive training in both Eastern and Western medicine.  Melvyn Cann is a genuine Renaissance-style polymath, embodying the empirical spirit of Diogenes with the humanity of Erasmus.

0’00 Intro

4’11 On the unknown

9’25 On the street

20’25 EXCERPT: Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel)

23’11 With Celibidache in Munich

26’30 EXCERPT: Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony

28’10 On intensity

33’08 On preparing for exams

37’30 EXCERPT: Paganini Caprice 17

44’38 On the nature of the violin

48’30 EXCERPT: Brahms Violin Concerto

50’28 Scientific reductionism

52’27 EXCERPT: Beethoven Violin Concerto

1:01’18 Teaching composition

1:08’02 EXCERPT: Beethoven String Quartet Op.127

1:17’09 Synchronicity in life

1:21’59 EXCERPT: Gluck Melodie