The local Section group has a subgroup that meets regularly to discuss and read fairytales. The group is facilitated by Marion Donehower, who is a native German-language speaker and has made portions of this important book available to participants in translation. For...
Greetings at the season of Michaelmas. Here is a summary of the recent weekly Section for Literary Arts & Humanities meeting of the local group in Fair Oaks, CA. This meeting occurred on September 26, 2020, via Zoom. "Intimate acquaintance with Novalis means for...
“. . . fairy tales can help counter illnesses . . .” – Rudolf Steiner Published by SteinerBooks: www.steinerbooks.org In our current weekly meetings, the local Section group in Fair Oaks has been studying Novalis intensively since the beginning of Covid restrictions...
Here is a summary of the recent weekly Section for Literary Arts & Humanities meeting of the local group in Fair Oaks, CA. This meeting occurred on September 19, 2020 via Zoom. "Human beings travel many paths. Whoever pursues these paths and makes comparisons will...
A performance video of John Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Read by Margit Ilgen; original music by Bruce Donehower. Performance Notes In the days before COVID, our Section meetings occurred in the house -- in the living room or the kitchen. Prior to COVID,...
“Wald und Wasserfall im Mondschein” by Carl Gustav Carus The poem An den Mond by Goethe has a musical setting by Schubert. In this German speech recitation, we chose instead the Adagio from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played on the classical guitar. The poem has...
Here is a summary of the recent weekly Section for Literary Arts & Humanities meeting of the local group in Fair Oaks, CA. This meeting occurred on September 12, 2020 via Zoom. Meeting Summary Last night we began our discussion of the novel Narcissus and Goldmund...
Margit, Marion and I started our performance video work with the tale Hyacinth and Rosebud which is found in The Apprentices of Sais. We had published this earlier and presented it to our Section members. Our recent effort, also shared recently, was the tale Jorinda...
Here is a summary of the recent weekly Section for Literary Arts & Humanities meeting of the local group in Fair Oaks, CA. This meeting occurred on September 5, 2020 via Zoom. At this meeting, we continued our consideration of Novalis. Meeting Summary Last night...
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