Posts Tagged ‘discovering’
Sep.
11
2013
Yo Lassus! Long time no see.
Revisiting a great work of art years after one’s first acquaintance with it is like revisiting an old friend. The passage of time changes people but not art, so our reacquaintance with a work beloved in our past tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the art object. Of course, the […]
Nov.
17
2011
Discovering Classical Music
I got the bug for classical music in 1972 during my sophomore year of college. It was almost a sacred rite for my friends to gather in someone’s dormitory room and listen to each other’s rock albums. One day someone borrowed a copy of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic […]
