A Conversation About Warren Ashby (1985)

In this archival video from 1985, friends and colleagues discuss the life and philosophy of Dr. Warren Ashby, the founder of the Warren Ashby Residential College at UNC-Greensboro.
The intro music to the video is Beethoven’s Sonata #30 in E Major Opus 109, one of Warren Ashby’s favorite pieces of music. Warren Ashby kept Journals most of his life - from the 1940s until his death in 1985. In one entry in his last journal he wrote:
"What do I mean when I say that I want, and try to live like Beethoven's Sonata 30 in E Major, Op. 109 and in C Minor, Op. 111? They are the two greatest sonatas I know and, are in fact, two of the greatest creations of the human spirit. To live like them would be to live, to be and become (both are always becoming and, at moments of fulfillment, are) essential human life.
They are simple and complex, they have loveliness and depth, they move in a breath from lightness to profundity, and the variations in 109 with multiplicity out of unity contain enough forms of being for a lifetime.
This does not begin to answer the question.
All art is a revelation, an image of life. Without necessarily knowing what he is doing--though many of the best know it--the artist expresses life; and the feelings great art {arouses} in one who sees, hears, touches are life feelings. Often "a lifetime burning in every moment."
So even if my rational, analyzing mind cannot say always what it is I want to be and become, what life I want and try to live, this I want to be these two sonatas. And sometimes when I listen to them I am aware, with fulfilled gratitude, that they are life, my life". - January 21, 1985