AMAZING TEASER!
DELLARATTA ~ Steely Dan, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, You Must Believe In Spring w/Guest Marco van den Berg Scholten
S:2 E:12 Marco van den Berg Scholten – IN SEARCH OF ACHILLES – https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jbQ4t75dNDbxtyoDAFNKx
Episode 12 welcomes our first Guest from The Netherlands Author and Pro Basketball Coach Marco van den Berg Scholten in a discussion that includes Jazz, Basketball and the inspirations behind his NEW Book “IN SEARCH OF ACHILLES” with live performances by Rick of songs inspired by Steely Dan and Jazz Icon Bill Evans!
About Marco van den Berg Scholten
Marco was a head coach in pro basketball for 30 years, both on national and international levels. But his novel, in synopsis since 1990, never left him, and then in 2021 he finally wrote it, in American English. It captures the undercurrent of nihilism in the heydays of post-modernist moral relativism and self-congratulatory neo-liberalism. The foundation for the present-day meaning crisis, so to speak. It is a tale about a search for values in a society that has lost its pillars of nobility and dignity.
This theme has been a central part of his work as a coach as well, as he has been aware of the tremendous sense of loneliness that girds the modern human without moral direction which is the dominant mode of the Occident. People are people and language is language, but we are in need of Anchors of meaning to transcend our horizons beyond the tunnel view of egoism.
He is married to a politician and has a sixteen-year-old daughter out of his first marriage.
He loves basketball the way it was played until 2008 in the US and the way it is still played in Europe, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia. The game is the purest form of teamwork: Structured and disciplined-philosophical at the start, but then as a game unwinds, more and more appealing to creativity, both of the individual as well as the collective. As he puts it: “When played at its best, the game of basketball is like great jazz: a dialectical upward-spiraling process of creation; new solution after new solution is being asked from ‘adversaries’ in a back-and-forth that demands a constant reinvention of options to shoot (also literally) for.”
He is presently writing a second novel. The central theme of this work is Freedom. Indeed, with a capital F. The way perhaps C.G. Jung intended it in his work “The Undiscovered Self.” He read a few chapters of the Tao Te Ching every day before he start writing, and lots of comparative philosophy finds its way into the text too.
His hobbies include tennis, psychology, comparative philosophy, jogging, and cooking while dancing to great Italian Cantautores. He loves dogs but since his last one died in my arms four years ago he can’t bring myself to adopt a new one. Also because of the nature of his wife’s work -with lots of travel- it would be nearly impossible to care for one in this phase of their lives.
He also occasionally gives leadership seminars. This has grown out of his experience as a basketball coach.
Buy the Book and Contact Marco at: https://www.vandenbergscholten.com/
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Wishing Marco continued success and hope with our listeners help (and that means YOU reading this!) we can get this podcast and the “Trusted Source” funding link above circulated out to the Netherlands so that they can learn more about Marco, Jazz for Peace, and the importance of Ricks very first performance in the Netherlands which will help get the message of JAZZforPEACE out to the great people of this country!
Best Regards,
Debra ~ Debra R. Cerritelli, Senior Event Coordinator / John De Angelis, Grant Administrator / Rick DellaRatta – Founder ~ Jazz for Peace™
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“Encouraging boys to express emotions is crucial for their development. Your work is inspiring positive change!” ~ Ishu Bansal ~ Delhi, India
“Hi Rick: This is fantastic! Thank you so much for having me as a guest. I appreciate your pointing out how boys in a lot of ways are feeling left out, and how we, as a society can help them by developing their emotional intelligence…..all the best in your work, ~ Raelene S, Weaver See full episode https://open.spotify.com/episode/68OE8UeetsQnDkiywt0phk