For more than a century now, " Ariel " has been an extraordinarily influential and enduring essay in Latin American letters and culture due to a combination of specific cultural, literary, and political circumstances, as well as for its adherence to Classical values and its denunciation of utilitarianism and what Rod?called " " nordoman�a " " ( explained below ).
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Classical values of control and symmetry lived on vestigially in the music of early Beethoven and even Schubert; but as the first " Creation " performances were taking place in Vienna, the larger world was discovering Mozart, whose latent darkness and melancholy would lead to a new idea of music, one in which the certitudes of " The Creation " could never feel comfortable.
