So I spent ages and ages babbling over this post. And today I find that Frank J. Oteri over on NewMusicBox has summed it up sooo succinctly, thus:

Music is just, well, too long. It takes too much time. And that time has to be focused and continuous. You can walk by a hundred paintings as fast as the crowds allow you to. You can read a book anywhere you want, put it down whenever you want, and pick it up again without losing the thread. (Well, most books—at least the ones that get on bestseller lists.) Admittedly, watching TV also requires time—everyone knows how much time it wastes, but very few people who watch TV are actually focused on it completely. If they were, they'd probably be able to quit the habit more easily.

Can I just say for about the 200th time what an awesome site NewMusicBox is?

Labels: classical music, random thoughts

# posted by minim @ 9:45 PM