12/1/09

Mute Music

Quote of the day

Nevertheless, articulating the connection between music and the outer world remains devilishly difficult. Musical meaning is vague, mutable, and, in the end, deeply personal. Still, even if history can never tell us exactly what music means, music can tell us something about history. My subtitle is meant literally; this is the twentieth century heard through its music.

from The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross

(ภาพประกอบจากเทศกาลละครกรุงเทพปี 2552 / ขอขอบคุณไลต์เฮาส์พับลิชชิ่งสำหรับหนังสือทรงคุณค่า)

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