*Conservatism: because Broadway production costs are so high, creative risk is inhibited and attracting the widest audience possible takes precedence.
Part of the answer, he found, was that some of those same mutations carried a highly positive trait as well: high creative ability.
But, when Barzun insists that he sees "the end of the high creative energies at work since the Renaissance," his tone is less that of someone appalled by what's happening than of someone simply recording the ocean currents.
Whatever the case, Spalding felt that he could no longer achieve the high creative level, the playfulness and mastery, of his pre-accident performances — and others felt this, too.
In the past decade or two, though, the design of concert halls and opera houses has entered a high creative phase, with more than a few masterpieces resulting, the most famous being Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles.
The high creative group relative to the low creative group was shown to exhibit greater activity in regions of the semantic cognition network as well as the salience network during creative conceptual expansion.
