tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post8393463739522051369..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: The Mountain to MohammadBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-70254225617737980962014-11-25T09:26:09.144-06:002014-11-25T09:26:09.144-06:00Hi Jon,
You are quite right, it seems as if a lot...Hi Jon,<br /><br />You are quite right, it seems as if a lot of the experience of music has moved from the communal to the private. And people are still emotionally involved with their music--good point. I don't like listening to music on my smartphone, so I tend to forget that lots of people do. I think I made the point somewhere that listening to a Bach oratorio in a church, or a Beethoven symphony in a concert hall has an almost sacred aspect (certainly so in the case of the Bach). It is a kind of communal worship of some kind of transcendence. But the situation now is that music tends to be used more as the soundtrack to our inner lives--kind of a melodrama. Instead of us entering into it, it accompanies us.<br /><br />Yes, with the possible exception of Condoleezza Rice, hard to imagine any political leader of our day playing chamber music in the evening!<br /><br />Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.com