Sublime

the most joyous sound invented during the entire course of twentieth-century music.

“The opening bars inevitably set up a paradigm using elements such as volume, meter, and progression to invite a listener to eschew their mundane world for a time and to plunge down the rabbit hole into an alternate universe,”

“ambient music.”

mystical silence in which one is simply aware of what is, here and now, without verbal or ideational comment.

Before I play the music, I describe the structural milestones in the piece they are about to hear. Then we go through the work in question—ideally several times—and see how the structure is realized in actual performance.

Max Roach:

The sum of Lessing’s wisdom seems to be: spend your time running around and don’t worry about getting anywhere. The man was obviously not worried about getting to work in the morning.