The
SSO in fine form tonight. Their audience quite dreadful. Lots of students in
attendance for some reason. Extremely limited attention spans, especially for
the second half of the concert, which happened to be wonderful. Great piece by
Toru Takemitsu: I Hear The Water Dreaming.
Textures to drown in. Why is it so hard for people to just do nothing &
listen?
So I was as much of an old curmudgeon then as I am now. But a curmudgeon with a pretty good point to make, I reckon. (By the way, I remember vividly the opening of the great composer's piece and just how noisy the idiots around me became as soon as they realised the music wasn't conventionally 'pretty' in the manner I reckon they expected. And I feel just as annoyed now as I was then.)
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