Berthold Hoeckner

What has all this to do with Wagner? I believe that the distinction between the hedgehog and the fox can serve not only as a starting point for investigating Wagner's view of history, but also provide a new perspective on history's view of Wagner—specifically, Wagner's alleged ...

In this study we sought to explore how experience with specific mental and somatic practices is associated with wisdom, using self-report measures of experience and wisdom. We administered standard surveys to measure wisdom and experience among four groups of practitioners of mental and somatic practices, namely, meditators, practitioners of the Alexander Technique, practitioners of the Feldenkrais Method, and classical ballet dancers. We additionally administered surveys of trait anxiety and empathy to all participants to explore possible mediating relationships of experience and wisdom by characteristics thought to be components of wisdom. Wisdom was higher on average among meditation practitioners, and lowest among ballet dancers, and this difference held when controlling for differences in age between practices, supporting the view that meditation is linked to wisdom and that ballet is not. However, we found that increased experience with meditation and ballet were both positive...

... To the Memory of My Father, George Earl Watkins (1893-1986), Peacetime educator who served as an officer in both World Wars, and of My Mother, Orpha Andes (1900-1977), Who waited for him in the First and joined him ... Cover for Alfredo Casella's Pagine di guerra, 1915. ...

This essay examines the story of two stories, both by Richard Wagner: a story of Lohengrin, knight of the Holy Grail, and of Lohengrin, the opera.1 Lohengrin's story is well known: Elsa of Brabant, accused by her former suitor Friedrich of Telramund of having killed her brother ...

Some material for this article originated with my "Music as a Metaphor for Metaphysics: Tropes of Transcendence in Nineteenth-Century Music from Schumann to Mahler" (Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1994). An earlier version of section 5 was read at the Winter 1993 Meeting of ...

My thoughts about the relationship between the narrative and tonal structure of Dichterliebe were first inspired by the unpublished paper “The Dominant Relation as Meta-phor in Schumann's Dichterliebe,” which Jeff Nichols gave at the 1993 annual meeting of the American ...