The Orphic I

Geoffrey Dean, PhD, served on the music faculty of the American University in Bulgaria for over twenty years. He has performed internationally as a chamber musician and recitalist and premiered many new works at his AmBul Festival of American and Bulgarian Music. His articles have appeared in the Sofia Philosophical Review, Bulgarian Musicology, and Strings Magazine, and his transcriptions have been heard around the world. Now living in Minneapolis, he leads the orchestra program at Parnassus Preparatory School, a leading US institution for classical education.

The originality of The Orphic I is due in part to its truly unique, first-person illustrations of the theoretical theses. But Dean's real innovation is in the specificity of his philosophical approach. His book is a clear example of the applicability of philosophical knowledge, of how ideas that too often remain solely in the realm of academic discourse can actually "work" in the discussion of cultural phenomena. -Dr Pravda Spasova,Professor of Philosophy, National Art Academy, Sofia

The originality of The Orphic I is due in part to its truly unique, first-person illustrations of the theoretical theses. But Dean’s real innovation is in the specificity of his philosophical approach. His book is a clear example of the applicability of philosophical knowledge, of how ideas that too often remain solely in the realm of academic discourse can actually “work” in the discussion of cultural phenomena.

—Dr Pravda Spasova,Professor of Philosophy, National Art Academy, Sofia