The Joy of Comments
Alex Ross has an article in the New Yorker this week on the history of the classical music concert, and in particular its recent/decent descent/ascent into stoic sitting in silence. My favorite comment from the reddit thread on the article:
Reading this, I just realized the main difference between a classical concert and other types of concerts…. pianissimo, and the ability of the audience to hear it.
Nice.
In unrelated news, today I unevenly jammed a pair of contact lenses into my poor, silently screaming eyes for the first time. It took half an hour of poking to get the lenses in, and then another ten minutes to get them out again. The “whites” of my eyes currently do not deserve that title. This better bloody get easier soon…
Tags: alex ross, classical music, concert