“What is it about music that is capable of swaying human emotions? To answer that question, you have to start by asking another one: What does music mean? We know what a pop song or an opera aria means because the words tell us–but how do we know what a symphony means?”
Tag: 10.17.09
The Global Kindle Marks A Historic Evolution
“The only other events as important to the history of the book are the birth of print and the shift from the scroll to bound pages. The e-reader, now widely available, will likely change our thinking and our being as profoundly as the two previous pre-digital manifestations of text.”
Rocco Says He Won’t Be Getting A Personality Transplant
“[N]ow that [Rocco] Landesman is firmly in the job,” serving as NEA chairman, “has the hard-charging Midwesterner toned down his rhetoric? Hardly. … He says he’s ‘vexed’ by the notion that discussions about quality are considered code for elitism or worse. ‘I don’t get it,’ he argues. ‘Quality is what we’re in business to encourage.'”