Reminded me of this:
Years ago my mother had a subscription to the opera. She didn't care
for much after Puccini and offered me her seat for a performance of
Wozzeck, one of my absolute favorites, long stretches of which are
wordless. Except that the lack of words from the stage was more than
offset by the chatter of those around me. Seems that they interpreted
non-singing as silence, needing to be filled.
At 11:15 AM 10/16/2009, you wrote:
>Now, II thought Andrew would have commented by now, quoting Miles
>Davis on the necessity of silence in music. What's between the notes
>being as important as the notes themselves.
>
>Or that silence sometimes between the words, the phrases.
>
>Or all the sounds IN the silence, as Cage revealed....
>
>Which, yes, perhaps we fear....
>
>Doug
>On 16-Oct-09, at 9:04 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 04:29 -0700, Brian Hawkins wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps our culture has a problem with silence, including the
>>>silences
>>between words.
>>
>>It is supposed to be one of those golden rules of radio production: no
>>silence allowed.
>
>Douglas Barbour
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>Take away my wisdom and my categories!
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> Phyllis Webb
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