I read that Carl Jung once stood up at a restaurant and unplugged the radio that was playing background music.
Of course, he thought he was Special.
His point was that music should never be for backgrounds, that it should be full-out loud or nothing.
I've been visiting at people's houses when, at dinnertime, there's a chamber group playing fervently in the next room on the stereo, and I always feel rude to ignore them when they're playing their hearts out, even though it's a recording.
Back in the olden days, that's what chamber orchestras did, play at suppertime and get ignored.
Brahms, I understand, played music in a bar when he was young, and he was so good (so it's said) that he could read or do his homework while he played the piano.
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Date: 2008-08-17 09:56 pm (UTC)Of course, he thought he was Special.
His point was that music should never be for backgrounds, that it should be full-out loud or nothing.
I've been visiting at people's houses when, at dinnertime, there's a chamber group playing fervently in the next room on the stereo, and I always feel rude to ignore them when they're playing their hearts out, even though it's a recording.
Back in the olden days, that's what chamber orchestras did, play at suppertime and get ignored.
Brahms, I understand, played music in a bar when he was young, and he was so good (so it's said) that he could read or do his homework while he played the piano.