The glorious repertoire for solo piano includes many of classical music’s most beloved masterpieces. In these 24 musically rich lectures, you’ll dig deeply into this magnificent tradition, in an in-depth exploration of the art of listening. With Professor Kautsky’s inspired guidance and expert playing, you’ll highlight key works of each composer, and unpack their structure, the musical materials that drive them, and the specific features that affect listeners so strongly, giving you a clear grounding in how to approach and hear this great music.

In a field known for startling ideas, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics may take the prize. It holds that parallel to our own world are a large number of other universes, almost identical to ours but with small variations. Copies of each of us inhabit a myriad of these worlds. But they are not us exactly; they share our past history, but they are different people who have unique futures. Although these realms are invisible and can’t communicate with each other, prominent physicists are convinced they must exist.

Beginning with the witch hunts of the early 15th century, Professor Jennifer McNabb takes you on an eye-opening exploration of witchcraft and superstition in Witchcraft in the Western Tradition. In these 10 lectures, you will better understand where many of our most indelible images of witchcraft come from and how the religious pursuit of witches across Europe and into the Americas in the early modern period spread fear and violence like a contagion, for generations.

リズムに乗って単語を覚え、長文で定着させる！　1日12語×12週間で720語をマスター！

名だたる文筆家が登場する、文藝春秋の文化講演会。どうして日本には恋愛文学があるのに中国にはほとんど無いのだろう?本居宣長が提示した疑問を紐解いてゆくと、日本と中国の国民性、文学の伝統が見えてくる…明治以後の恋愛文学は西洋文学の影響では無かったのです。(1992年11月3日 高松市民会館 文藝春秋七十周年記念講演会より)
●まるで無いような顔 ●一事が万事 ●恋する国家 ●朝日に匂う山桜 ●文学の伝統 文藝春秋の文化講演会は、文学談や執筆秘話に人生論も交え、含蓄と味わい深い講演があなたの生き方に豊かさと彩りを添えます。