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Listen! There IS Dispute About Taste, 10:00 AM

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Date and Time

Friday, December 19, 2025, 10:00 AM until 11:30 AM

Location

Virtual
MD
USA

Event Contact(s)

JihJen Joy Cheung

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About this event

Topic: There IS Dispute About Taste

Speaker: Professor Tom Benjamin

DE GUSTIBUS DISPUTANDUM EST

(Direct Translation from Latin: Of taste, there is disputing).
Turning the ancient adage on its head, we CAN in fact argue about taste- and it's fun and instructive to do so. What determines our tastes (for art, music, food, literature, whatever), and what does our taste say about our personality, character and in fact everything? We'll bring in our old buddies Plato, Kant and Hume- to say nothing of Apollo and Dionysus- to lend a hand. And experience a varied bunch of art, music and poems.

All are welcome; technical knowledge of music is not needed. This is the 41st monthly lecture.
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Tom Benjamin, a TVIH member and distinguished musician and educator, will offer a series of music education lectures for music lovers. If you like to sing,, play an instrument, or just enjoy listening to music, this program is for you. This program is free and open to TVIH members and the public.

Our Speaker:

Tom Benjamin is a composer, music theorist, conductor and performer- only because he can't decide what he wants to do when he grows up. He tau ght music theory and composition for far too many years at the University of Houston, the National Music Camp (Interlochen) and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins, where he chaired the Theory Department. Tom has just retired from a wonderful 30-year gig as Minister of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia. He's looking forward to a new and very different kind of teaching with the swift folks at TVIH.

Alan Coltri and Laurie Coltri will provide technical assistance in the zoom meeting room.

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