Sunday, April 16, 2017

Foundation Music Art Science Summer school

Here is info about the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture, www.fftrocc.org that ran a very great summer school in 2016 and is scheduled to do it again.... so read about the program and see what you think. It took place at schools and other sites in New York City, NY.
The Summer School 2016 princiDONATE/SUBSCRIBE WHY MUSIC AND SCIENCE? The fundamental characteristic of the human mind—every human mind, past, present and future—is creativity, expressed most beautifully in man's capacity for.... development and creativity. ​ JOIN US FOR THIS YEAR'S SUMMER SCHOOL! creative play. This creative play is the basis of both science and art. It is famously reported of Albert Einstein that when he ran into a roadblock in his scientific work, he would retreat into the world of creative play of Classical music—playing his violin late into the night until, as would sometimes happen, the music would suddenly stop, and he would report, “I've got it.” Einstein insisted that “imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
​ These sentiments of Einstein echo the great genius Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), founder of physical astronomy, whose work forms a key part of the educational program of the Foundation. Kepler's discoveries of the physical cause of the motion of the planets, and of the musical harmonic principles which order the motions of the Solar System as a whole, demonstrate the absolute coherence between ... art, music and science. The Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture is recognized as a public charity under Internal Revenue Code section 509(a) and has 501(c)(3) status.

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