For this valuable profession to be saved, classical music must be sold for what it is: an extraordinary force for good, a medium that has powers to move and excite, to calm and soothe, to stimulate intellect and emotion.
In making the composers' musical mind the subject of his concert, he and his orchestra and his soloist delighted the ear, stimulated the intellect, stirred the emotions — and even enriched aesthetic morality with the connection of music to lived experience, the composers' and his own.
November 11 2012 A Peter Serkin performance always stimulates the intellect as much as the ears.
Paying attention to what engages and excites you, what lights you up, and what stimulates your intellect points you toward the tasks and situations that enable you to be your best self.
For all of the athenaeums' efforts to be living centers for stimulating the intellect and delighting the artistic senses, they remain destinations of discovery, places where one can travel through time over a continuum of American history and literature.
What better way to rid our schools of senior slump than to engage young adults with college-level study that will stimulate their intellect and motivate them to plunge into the next phase of their lives?
Sometimes the story stimulates the intellect and sometimes it touches the emotions.
Carry or wear agate when you have to make an important decision -- this stone can sharpen your sight, stimulate your intellect and dispel fears.
His art more than meets our need for aesthetic satisfaction, but there are other layers to his work that stimulate the intellect and spark the imagination, too.
His intellect stimulated us; his music touched our hearts.
In addition to inspiring such a literal mode of interpretation, these landscapes also stimulated Diderot's intellect and evoked a certain mood.
