Here's something you might be interested in.
I enjoy eavesdropping when I'm at a classical music concert because it's a win/win situation. I've heard illuminating conversations and spectacularly mundane conversations, both are good.
The illuminating is obviously beneficial but what of the glorious mundane?
Whenever we hear someone talking about their dinner or their new hair color or their new smartphone app, it can remind us of the humanity of the composer.
Beethoven spoke of these things, maybe not the apps. Verdi discussed routes and roads. I'm sure Wagner was interested in fashion and style. However, these people also wrote immortal music that will always be with us.
We are at the concert to hear their greatest accomplishments but we can get duped into believing that they were always in greatness mode. They were not and neither are we always in mundane mode.
Perhaps the point I'm making is that when the music is playing we are with the music and the pinnacles of human endevour are presented to us.
On the other hand, if we have to stop at Walmart on the way home because it's open and convenient, that's what Mozart might have done as well.
I'm just saying...
I enjoy eavesdropping when I'm at a classical music concert because it's a win/win situation. I've heard illuminating conversations and spectacularly mundane conversations, both are good.
The illuminating is obviously beneficial but what of the glorious mundane?
Whenever we hear someone talking about their dinner or their new hair color or their new smartphone app, it can remind us of the humanity of the composer.
Beethoven spoke of these things, maybe not the apps. Verdi discussed routes and roads. I'm sure Wagner was interested in fashion and style. However, these people also wrote immortal music that will always be with us.
We are at the concert to hear their greatest accomplishments but we can get duped into believing that they were always in greatness mode. They were not and neither are we always in mundane mode.
Perhaps the point I'm making is that when the music is playing we are with the music and the pinnacles of human endevour are presented to us.
On the other hand, if we have to stop at Walmart on the way home because it's open and convenient, that's what Mozart might have done as well.
I'm just saying...