| | To C. Jeffery Small (Post 20)
It's great that you mention Ottorino Respighi's music. I have most of it and will never get bored to hear it. It elates me.
In what refers to music for the movies I consider that it is the place where romantic music found a haven in the disgraceful state of modern's world so-called "modern art". You can read my comments about it in Chapter 7 of my book "Ayn Rand, I and the Universe", which was published here at "Rebirth of Reason" (See, for the corresponding chapter http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Schieder/The_Refueling_of_our_Power_for_Creation.shtml).
In relation with Heidi C. Morris "Triumph over Chaos" I agree with her words but also agree with Rand and Marnee's comment (Post 9) when it comes to not considering photography art, while I fully agree that photography can easily enrapture the viewer, particularly when the photographer is, separately, also a painter and/or sculptor, for then he can "see" the scene with a more all encompassing "view" than merely noticing the immediate moment he is photographing.
In this relation I must add the following: while photography is a "snap shot", art involves a deep understanding of what idea, what abstract is concretized by the painting, sculpture, etc. There's only one way to "move" photography towards art, but it requires the sensibility of an artist who is very experienced with paintings, etc. and, by then, the effort is, perhaps, redundant. For example, it won't do to simply set up the scene and photograph it, as Marnee states. Once the snap shot is taken the photographing artist would have to combine a part of it with parts of other shots and even touch the resulting whole up by deleting some parts, adding others, etc. until the original photograph is in itself a work of art conveying the abstract idea whose concretized view he wants to communicate. This, of course, is a far, far cry from the collages of unrelated bits that can be seen hanging in museums of "modern" "art". Such a work would, of course, require all the fine nuances of the understanding and the feelings of an artist and by then the whole process could probably have been reduced in time and effort and attained a much better result by just painting the whole idea more specifically on a canvas (for example: Ayn Rand sitting at her desk and writing and around her, her vision of the future of an Objectivist society and such).
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