It's a funny coincidence, but as I was driving today, I was meditating on the process by which someone hears a classical piece, and there's a section with deep turmoil and strife, and then it breaks through into the sun and makes you feel great (I was listening to Ravel's "Introduction and Allegro," which doesn't exactly have turmoil in it) -- they hear that and decide that they just liked that happy part, and the part before it was kind of a downer, so they excerpt that part -- and after a while, bereft of context, it doesn't have the same punch, and they wonder what they saw in it in the first place, and this classical stuff is just overrated anyway.
So we're on the same page with that. If you wondered.
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Date: 2008-10-22 02:38 am (UTC)It's a funny coincidence, but as I was driving today, I was meditating on the process by which someone hears a classical piece, and there's a section with deep turmoil and strife, and then it breaks through into the sun and makes you feel great (I was listening to Ravel's "Introduction and Allegro," which doesn't exactly have turmoil in it) -- they hear that and decide that they just liked that happy part, and the part before it was kind of a downer, so they excerpt that part -- and after a while, bereft of context, it doesn't have the same punch, and they wonder what they saw in it in the first place, and this classical stuff is just overrated anyway.
So we're on the same page with that. If you wondered.